60.0% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 92% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 55.8%
- 2016: 56.0%
- 2021: 60.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Surry Hills · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Surry Hills
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge churn of residents defines daily life in Surry Hills, where 60% of people have moved house in the last five years. This is far above the national figure, marking the area as one of the most transient places in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Six in ten people have moved here within the last five years, a figure that is far above the New South Wales average of 39.9%. This high rate of movement has risen by 4.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 26.0% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. While still among the highest for similar areas, this proportion fell 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
26.0% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 26.0%
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 Surry Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/117031336/surry-hills/topic/mobility-location