53.6% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 88% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 48.7%
- 2021: 53.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forrest · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Forrest
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Forrest have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area far more mobile than the rest of the country, with 53.6% of people arriving recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people moving into the area has risen to 53.6% since 2011. This is well above the ACT figure of 46.1% and far above the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 8.0% of the population, which is well below both the ACT and national figures. This is a drop of 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
8.0% ▼ -43.7%
Lower than 66% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 8.0%
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 Forrest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801061063/forrest/topic/mobility-location