36.1% ▲ +7.6%
Lower than 75% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Illawarra · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Illawarra
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have recently moved to Illawarra compared to other parts of the country. Only 36.1% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, a figure well below the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While the share of people moving house has risen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011, the 36.1% who moved in the last five years is still much lower than most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals have fallen to 9.5% since 2011, leaving the region well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
9.5% ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 76% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 Illawarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/107/illawarra/topic/mobility-location