73.8% ▲ +163.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 73.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Eastgardens · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Eastgardens
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Eastgardens is among the most mobile areas at this level, with a huge proportion of the population having changed homes recently. Nearly three quarters of residents moved here in the last five years, driven by a very high number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 73.8% of people moved into the area in the last five years, a figure far above the New South Wales average of 39.9%. This makes Eastgardens one of the most transient areas compared to similar places.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The high turnover is helped by recent overseas arrivals, who make up 33.1% of the population. This is far above the national figure of 14.5%.
33.1% ▲ +290.2%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 33.1%
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 Eastgardens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11370/eastgardens/topic/mobility-location