49.2% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.5%
- 2016: 49.5%
- 2021: 49.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hamilton · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Hamilton have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than other similar places, driven by both domestic moves and a high number of people arriving from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.2% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well above the national average of 40.7%. This rate of movement is among the highest for areas of this type.
49.2% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.8% of the population. This is much higher than most areas and sits well above the Australian figure of 14.5%.
17.8% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 84% 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 Hamilton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11845/hamilton/topic/mobility-location