51.6% ▲ +16.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.4%
- 2016: 50.5%
- 2021: 51.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kogarah · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Kogarah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher share of people have moved into Kogarah recently compared to the rest of the state. Over half the population shifted homes in the last five years, a trend driven largely by a very high number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 51.6% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is far above the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The high turnover is helped explain by the fact that 25.4% of people are recent arrivals from overseas, a figure far above the national average of 14.5%.
25.4% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
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 Kogarah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12190/kogarah/topic/mobility-location