30.9% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Pelican · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stability has defined the population in Pelican, where residents are much less likely to move than in other parts of the country. Very few people have arrived from overseas recently, and the area shows a far lower turnover of residents compared to state and national figures.
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 30.9% of people have moved house in the last five years. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national average of 40.7%.
30.9% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.3% of the population. This is well below both Australia (14.5%) and New South Wales (14.9%).
8.3% ▲ —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Pelican [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13189/pelican/topic/mobility-location