46.4% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 84% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 44.3%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 46.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sydney - Eastern Suburbs · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Sydney - Eastern Suburbs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of the people in the Sydney - Eastern Suburbs have changed their address in the last five years. This area has seen a shift in its migration patterns since 2011, becoming more mobile internally while seeing a drop in the proportion of new overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A high 46.4% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This movement has risen slightly since 2011 and is much higher than most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.8% of the population, a figure well above the 14.5% seen across Australia. However, this proportion has fallen by 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
19.8% ▼ -19.0%
Higher than 78% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 19.8%
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 Sydney - Eastern Suburbs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/118/sydney-eastern-suburbs/topic/mobility-location