53.9% ▲ +11.0%
Higher than 92% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 52.8%
- 2021: 53.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
2016, NSW · Postcode
Migration & Movement in 2016, NSW
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in postcode 2016 have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by a strong flow of people moving into the area, including a significant number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 53.9% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the national rate of 40.7%. This trend has risen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011, placing the area among the most mobile in the region.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
New arrivals from overseas make up 23.2% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This high proportion of recent overseas migrants has barely changed since 2011.
23.2% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 89% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in 2016, NSW [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA2016/2016-nsw/topic/mobility-location