41.1% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 72% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Major Cities of Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Major Cities of Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A little more than 15% of people in the Major Cities of Australia arrived from overseas recently. This is slightly higher than the national figure, reflecting the role of cities as primary hubs for new arrivals and those moving between homes.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.1% of residents have moved house in the last five years, a figure that has risen by 3.7 percentage points since 2011. This is higher than most other areas and sits just above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.9% of the population, which is a little above the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 4.0 percentage points since 2011.
15.9% ▼ -19.9%
Higher than 52% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 15.9%
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 Major Cities of Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA20/major-cities-of-australia/topic/mobility-location