43.3% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 46.9%
- 2016: 43.6%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balmain · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Balmain
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Balmain recently than in most other similar areas. While 43.3% of residents changed homes in the last five years, the number of people arriving from overseas has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.3% of people moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most areas and well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This is a slight drop from 2011, when 46.9% of the population had moved.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.2% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This is a sharp decline from 2011, when the proportion of new arrivals from overseas was 21.7%.
11.2% ▼ -48.5%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Balmain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/120021387/balmain/topic/mobility-location