40.7% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 61% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Southern Highlands · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Southern Highlands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into the Southern Highlands since 2011, with 40.7% of residents arriving in the last five years. This mobility is higher than in most similar areas, though it now matches the national and state figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 40.7% of people moved here in the last five years, which is a rise of 3.7 percentage points since 2011. This rate is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.1% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. While this is lower than most areas, the proportion of new overseas arrivals has risen 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
8.1% ▲ +47.5%
Lower than 75% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Southern Highlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11402/southern-highlands/topic/mobility-location