39.4% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 62% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 42.3%
- 2016: 43.4%
- 2021: 39.4%
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.
Higher movement rates than most similar areas define the Major Cities of Australia, where nearly 40% of people have changed homes recently. This mobility is offset by a sharp decline in new arrivals from overseas, who now make up 10.6% of the population.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.4% of people here moved in the last five years, a rate higher than most areas, though this is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has fallen by 2.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.6% of the population, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This figure has dropped steeply, falling 12 percentage points since 2011.
10.6% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 84% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 10.6%
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/RA50/major-cities-of-australia/topic/mobility-location