28.6% ▲ +15.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Broken Hill · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Broken Hill
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A high proportion of overseas arrivals makes Broken Hill a diverse place to live. While few people have moved from other parts of Australia recently, over one in five residents arrived from another country in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.6% of people moved home in the last five years. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 20.5% of the population. This is much higher than most areas and well above both the state (14.9%) and national (14.5%) figures.
20.5% ▲ +40.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 20.5%
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10589/broken-hill/topic/mobility-location