44.0% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 84% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 42.2%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
2023, NSW · Postcode
Migration & Movement in 2023, NSW
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 44% of residents in postcode 2023 have moved house in the last five years. This makes it a high-turnover area where people change homes far more often than in most other parts of the country. This mobility is paired with a steady presence of people arriving from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Forty-four per cent of the population moved within the last five years, a figure well above the national average of 40.7%. This trend of people moving in and out of the area has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People arriving from overseas make up 14.5% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure. However, the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has fallen by 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
14.5% ▼ -23.9%
Higher than 73% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 2023, NSW [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA2023/2023-nsw/topic/mobility-location