37.4% ▼ -12.8%
Lower than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 42.8%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 37.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmerston · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Palmerston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into or arrived from overseas in Palmerston since 2011. This trend is seen in both internal migration and international arrivals, with the proportion of recent overseas arrivals falling by 9.2 percentage points over the decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.4% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the figures for the ACT and Australia. This rate has fallen by 5.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.8% of the population, a little below the national figure and well below the ACT average.
11.8% ▼ -43.9%
Higher than 55% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 11.8%
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 Palmerston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801041048/palmerston/topic/mobility-location