47.3% ▲ +2.4%
Higher than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 47.3%
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.
Nearly half of all people in the Major Cities of Australia have moved home in the last five years. This creates a highly mobile population where 47.3% of residents are new to their area, a figure well above the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 47.3% of people moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This rate has risen slightly since 2011 and sits 6.6 percentage points above the Australian figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.8% of the population, which is lower than most areas. This figure is about the same as the national average, though it has fallen sharply by 9.3 percentage points since 2011.
13.8% ▼ -40.3%
Lower than 64% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 13.8%
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/RA30/major-cities-of-australia/topic/mobility-location