38.6% ▼ -11.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balmain East · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Balmain East recently than in previous years, contributing to a more mobile population. About 38.6% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is much higher than in most other similar areas.
People who moved in the last five years.
While 38.6% of people moved here in the last five years, this is a little below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
38.6% ▼ -11.6%
Higher than 75% 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 11.1% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but remains well below the national and state averages.
11.1% ▼ -52.0%
Higher than 68% 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 Balmain East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10166/balmain-east/topic/mobility-location