25.1% ▼ -15.8%
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mallala · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Mallala
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Few other similar areas have seen such a sharp contrast in how people move into Mallala. While the town has a very small number of people moving in from within Australia, it has seen a massive jump in new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 25.1% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far below the South Australian average of 36.9%. This is among the lowest rates for similar areas and has fallen by 4.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
In a striking shift, 22.8% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has risen by 17 percentage points since 2011.
22.8% ▲ +323.6%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 22.8%
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 Mallala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/405011113/mallala/topic/mobility-location