35.8% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Picton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Picton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have arrived from overseas in Picton compared to the rest of the country, with only 4.8% of the population being recent arrivals. This low intake of new migrants is a key feature of the area's shifting population. Most of the movement in the area is internal, as people move into the region from elsewhere in Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.8% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this figure is still well below the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 4.8% of the population, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
4.8% ▼ -26.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Picton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13212/picton/topic/mobility-location