41.8% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kiama · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Kiama
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved to Kiama recently than to most similar areas. Roughly 41.8% of the population shifted home in the last five years, making it a more mobile community than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.8% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits a little above both the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.8% of the population. This is around the middle for its level, though it is well below the figures for New South Wales (14.9%) and Australia (14.5%).
7.8% ▼ -37.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 7.8%
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 Kiama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12124/kiama/topic/mobility-location