59.4% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.2%
- 2016: 56.2%
- 2021: 59.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Darlinghurst · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Darlinghurst is one of the most mobile areas in the region, with a very high proportion of residents who have moved recently. Over half the population has changed homes in the last five years, reflecting a highly transient community.
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 59.4% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure far above both the New South Wales (39.9%) and national (40.7%) averages.
59.4% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are also very common here, with 23.0% of people arriving recently. This is well above the 14.5% typical for Australia and the 14.9% seen across New South Wales.
23.0% ▼ -35.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Darlinghurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11213/darlinghurst/topic/mobility-location