51.3% ▲ +16.3%
Higher than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 44.1%
- 2016: 49.0%
- 2021: 51.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kogarah · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Kogarah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Kogarah have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by a strong flow of new arrivals, with the area seeing far more people moving in and arriving from overseas than the state or national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 51.3% of people here changed homes recently, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This movement has increased over the last decade, rising 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 23.1% of the population, a figure well above the New South Wales average. While still much higher than most other areas, this proportion fell 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
23.1% ▼ -12.3%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 23.1%
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 Kogarah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/119041378/kogarah/topic/mobility-location