45.9% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 76% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Botany · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Botany
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Botany have changed homes recently, making it a highly mobile place. While 45.9% of people moved here in the last five years, the number of new arrivals from overseas has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Botany sees much more movement than most areas, with 45.9% of people moving in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen by 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 8.2% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is well below the 14.5% national average. This figure is lower than in most other areas and has fallen since 2011.
8.2% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 65% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 Botany [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/117011321/botany/topic/mobility-location