56.1% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.8%
- 2016: 52.8%
- 2021: 56.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Islington · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Islington
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Islington have changed their address in the last five years. This high churn makes the area much more mobile than the rest of the country. Roughly 14.5% of residents recently arrived from overseas, a figure that matches the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 56.1% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is far above the 40.7% national figure. This is among the highest rates of movement seen in similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.5% of the population. While this is much higher than most areas, it is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
14.5% ▼ -51.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 Islington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11999/islington/topic/mobility-location