37.5% ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 58% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Great Lakes · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Great Lakes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 38% of people in Great Lakes have moved house in the last five years. This is the most common movement pattern in the area, although the region remains much less likely to attract new arrivals from overseas than other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.5% of residents moved recently, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and well below the national rate. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 6.7% of the population, a figure well below both the state and national averages. While this is much lower than most areas, the number of recent arrivals has grown since 2011.
6.7% ▲ +81.6%
Lower than 85% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Great Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10801/great-lakes/topic/mobility-location