41.3% ▲ +2.4%
Higher than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 40.3%
- 2016: 41.8%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ballina · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Ballina
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten people in Ballina have changed their address recently, making it a fairly mobile place to live. This movement is mostly internal, as the proportion of new arrivals from overseas is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.3% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure is a little above the New South Wales average and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.2% of the population, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This proportion has fallen by 1.5 percentage points since 2011.
9.2% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 9.2%
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 Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/112011236/ballina/topic/mobility-location