26.7% ▼ -27.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forest Reefs · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stability defines the population of Forest Reefs, where very few people have moved into the area recently. This quiet trend is most visible in the fact that not a single person arrived from overseas in the last five years.
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 26.7% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%, meaning people here stay in their homes much longer than in most other areas.
26.7% ▼ -27.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 0.0% of the population. This is far below both the state (14.9%) and national (14.5%) figures, and is lower than most other similar areas.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Forest Reefs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11550/forest-reefs/topic/mobility-location