65.3% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.3%
- 2016: 62.1%
- 2021: 65.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
North Sydney · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in North Sydney
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into North Sydney since 2011 than in many other areas. This is a highly mobile part of the city where 65.3% of residents have changed homes in the last five years. This turnover is largely driven by a very high number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People move house here far more often than elsewhere, with 65.3% arriving in the last five years. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up a huge part of this movement, with 25.6% of the population arriving from another country recently. This is far above both the state (14.9%) and national (14.5%) figures.
25.6% ▼ -26.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 25.6%
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 North Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13020/north-sydney/topic/mobility-location