47.2% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 47.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balaclava · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Balaclava have moved house recently, making it much more mobile than most similar areas. While 47.2% of people arrived in the last five years, the area sees very few new arrivals from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 47.2% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well above both the New South Wales average of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%. This rate of movement is much higher than in most other similar areas.
47.2% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up only 3.5% of the population. This is far below the 14.9% seen in New South Wales and the 14.5% national average, and is lower than most other areas.
3.5% ▼ -50.3%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Balaclava [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10144/balaclava/topic/mobility-location