45.6% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.6%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 45.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Freshwater · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Freshwater
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost half of all residents in Freshwater have moved here in the last five years, showing a high level of population turnover. This shift makes the area much more mobile than most other places in the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.6% of people have changed their address since 2016, a figure that is well above the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is much higher than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.3% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This is about the same as the New South Wales rate of 14.9% and the Australian figure of 14.5%.
14.3% ▼ -38.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 Freshwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11572/freshwater/topic/mobility-location