31.9% ▲ +13.9%
Lower than 86% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dapto - Port Kembla · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Dapto - Port Kembla
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Dapto - Port Kembla recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 31.9% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is well below the national figure. This stability is mirrored in overseas migration, where the area sees very few new arrivals from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Residents here are much less likely to move than people in most other areas. The 31.9% who changed homes in the last five years is 8.8 percentage points lower than the Australian average, though this figure has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are among the lowest for areas of this size, making up just 4.7% of the population. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and has barely changed over the last decade.
4.7% ▲ +12.4%
Lower than 95% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 Dapto - Port Kembla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10701/dapto-port-kembla/topic/mobility-location