45.4% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.8%
- 2016: 44.6%
- 2021: 45.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balmain · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Balmain
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 45% of people in Balmain have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes it a very mobile community compared to most of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.4% of residents moved home recently, a figure that is well above the national average of 40.7% and the New South Wales figure of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 11.7% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas, though this is still a little below the Australian average of 14.5%.
11.7% ▼ -48.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 11.7%
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 Balmain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10165/balmain/topic/mobility-location