39.1% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forster · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Forster
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of residents in Forster have moved house in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile population. While the area attracts more new arrivals than most similar places, it relies far more on people moving from within Australia than from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.1% of people here changed homes in the last five years. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it sits just below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.4% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. However, this is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and the national average of 14.5%.
10.4% ▲ +167.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
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 Forster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11553/forster/topic/mobility-location