29.9% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 29.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Highfields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of people in Highfields changed their address in the last five years. This movement is much lower than the national trend, though the area sees a higher share of recent overseas arrivals than most similar places.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 29.9% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is far below the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.0% of the population, which is higher than most areas. However, this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
11.0% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 11.0%
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11909/highfields/topic/mobility-location