37.1% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 53% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Southern Highlands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Southern Highlands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Around the middle of similar areas for movement, the Southern Highlands sees 37.1% of its people changing homes in the last five years. While more people have moved into the area since 2011, it remains a place where very few residents have recently arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.1% of people moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This proportion has risen by 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.1% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This has barely changed since 2011, when it sat at 4.4%.
5.1% ▲ +16.8%
Lower than 84% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Southern Highlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/114021289/southern-highlands/topic/mobility-location