47.8% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 80% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 46.5%
- 2021: 47.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Side · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in East Side
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A quarter of all residents in East Side arrived from overseas recently, making it an area with much higher international migration than most. This high level of new arrivals is mirrored by a general trend of movement, with nearly half the population changing homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.8% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This rate has risen slightly since 2011, and is much higher than in most other similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.0% of the population, a figure far above the Australian average of 14.5%. While this remains much higher than most areas, the proportion has fallen by 8.9 percentage points since 2011.
25.0% ▼ -26.3%
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 25.0%
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 East Side [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/702011046/east-side/topic/mobility-location