46.8% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 45.0%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Petersham · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Petersham
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Petersham recently than in most similar areas. Almost 47% of residents have changed their address in the last five years, making it a very mobile community compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.8% of people here moved in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7% and the state average of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.7% of the population. While this is higher than most similar areas, it is a little below the Australian average of 14.5%.
11.7% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 11.7%
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 Petersham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13202/petersham/topic/mobility-location