27.7% ▼ -6.8%
Lower than 96% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Canberra East · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Canberra East
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Overseas arrivals have nearly doubled since 2011 in Canberra East, where 16.3% of people moved here from another country recently. While the area attracts new international residents, it has seen a trend of people staying put more than in other regions.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 27.7% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is far below the figures for the ACT and Australia. This rate is among the lowest for similar areas and has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.3% of the population, a figure that is a little above the national average. This represents a significant increase from 2011, when the share of recent arrivals was just 8.8%.
16.3% ▲ +84.9%
Higher than 69% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 16.3%
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 Canberra East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/80103/canberra-east/topic/mobility-location