34.3% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Buff Point · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Buff Point
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Buff Point from overseas than in most other parts of the country. While about 34% of residents have changed their home in the last five years, the area sees very little new arrival from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 34.3% of people moved home in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well 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 only 3.1% of the population. This is lower than most areas and sits far below the 14.9% seen across New South Wales and the 14.5% national average.
3.1% ▼ -14.1%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Buff Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10642/buff-point/topic/mobility-location