69.0% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 63.6%
- 2016: 65.2%
- 2021: 69.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Adelaide · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Adelaide
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 69% of people in Adelaide changed their home in the last five years, making it one of the most mobile areas in the region. This high turnover is driven by a very large proportion of people moving in from overseas to live in the city.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Mobility is far above the national figure, with 69% of residents moving house since 2016. This is much higher than the South Australian average of 36.9% and has risen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Almost half of the population, or 48.3%, arrived from overseas recently. While this is far above the Australian figure of 14.5%, it is a drop of 8.6 percentage points from 2011.
48.3% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 56.9%
- 2016: 57.0%
- 2021: 48.3%
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 Adelaide [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/401011001/adelaide/topic/mobility-location