52.5% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.3%
- 2016: 55.5%
- 2021: 52.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Chatswood · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Chatswood
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Chatswood have changed their address in the last five years, a rate far above the national figure. This high turnover is partly driven by a strong flow of new arrivals from overseas, making the area one of the most mobile places in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 52.5% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is far above the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and is among the highest rates for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 23.0% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This high level of international migration helps explain why so many people in Chatswood have moved recently.
23.0% ▼ -17.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 23.0%
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 Chatswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10891/chatswood/topic/mobility-location