23.8% ▼ -12.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cheltenham · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cheltenham
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Few people are changing addresses in Cheltenham, where only 23.8% of residents moved house in the last five years. This stability is a defining feature of the area, with far fewer people moving in or out compared to the rest of the state and country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 23.8% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is much lower than in most other similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.1% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. However, this is well below the 14.9% seen across New South Wales and the 14.5% national average.
6.1% ▼ -42.2%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 6.1%
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 Cheltenham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10895/cheltenham/topic/mobility-location