55.8% —
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 62.8%
- 2021: 55.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kensington · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Kensington
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Kensington have moved house in the last five years. This high churn makes the area much more mobile than most of the country, with 55.8% of people arriving recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the population—55.8%—moved into the area in the last five years, a figure far above the national rate of 40.7%. This is much higher than most other similar areas, though it has fallen by 7 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. While this remains among the highest rates for similar areas, the proportion of new arrivals fell by 20 percentage points since 2016.
29.0% —
Higher than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 48.8%
- 2021: 29.0%
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 Kensington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/118021564/kensington/topic/mobility-location