25.7% ▼ -11.9%
Lower than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wentworth-Balranald Region · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Wentworth-Balranald Region
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Overseas arrivals have jumped by 14 percentage points since 2011 in the Wentworth-Balranald Region. While a third of residents now arrive from overseas, the area has seen far fewer people moving house overall compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 25.7% of people moved home in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This is among the lowest rates for similar areas and has fallen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 32.3% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This represents one of the highest proportions of new overseas arrivals for this type of area.
32.3% ▲ +79.9%
Higher than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
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 Wentworth-Balranald Region [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/109021179/wentworth-balranald-region/topic/mobility-location