26.6% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Heckenberg · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Heckenberg
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Heckenberg recently than in other parts of the country. Only 26.6% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable population where most people stay put for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 26.6% of people here moved in the last five years, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This rate is also lower than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.9% of the population. This is well below the national average of 14.5% and the state figure of 14.9%.
5.9% ▼ -16.4%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Heckenberg [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11894/heckenberg/topic/mobility-location