24.5% ▼ -7.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balranald · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Balranald
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A striking mix of stability and new international arrivals defines Balranald. While very few locals move house, the town has seen a huge surge in people arriving from overseas, with over 40% of the population arriving from another country recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People here tend to stay put, as only 24.5% moved home in the last five years. This is far below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International migration is very high, with 40.7% of residents arriving from overseas recently. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and among the highest rates for similar areas.
40.7% ▲ +133.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 40.7%
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 Balranald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10169/balranald/topic/mobility-location