37.7% ▲ +5.8%
Lower than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shoalhaven · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Shoalhaven
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 6.9% of people in Shoalhaven arrived from overseas recently, which is much lower than most other areas. While more people have moved into the region since 2011, the proportion of new arrivals remains well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.7% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well below the 40.7% seen across Australia. This rate has risen slightly by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The share of recent overseas arrivals is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. Despite this gap, the proportion of people arriving from abroad rose 1.7 percentage points between 2011 and 2021.
6.9% ▲ +33.0%
Lower than 83% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Shoalhaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11401/shoalhaven/topic/mobility-location