39.8% ▲ +3.5%
Higher than 58% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Pearce · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Pearce
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved from overseas to Pearce since 2011, with recent arrivals falling from 18.5% to 12.1%. This shift defines the area's changing movement patterns, though nearly 40% of the population has still changed homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.8% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is about the same as the national figure, but well below the 46.1% seen across the Australian Capital Territory.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.1% of the population, which is a little below the Australian figure. This is also well below the territory average and marks a drop of 6.3 percentage points since 2011.
12.1% ▼ -34.2%
Higher than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Pearce [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801091108/pearce/topic/mobility-location