26.9% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kearns · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Kearns
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Very few people have moved into Kearns recently compared to other parts of the country. This stability is seen in both internal migration and overseas arrivals, with a far lower proportion of new residents than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 26.9% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure far below the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and the Australian average of 40.7%. This makes Kearns much less mobile than most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are also uncommon here, with just 3.1% of people arriving from abroad recently. This is far below the national figure of 14.5% and the state average of 14.9%.
3.1% ▼ -16.3%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Kearns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12087/kearns/topic/mobility-location