57.8% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.0%
- 2016: 47.5%
- 2021: 57.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Potts Point · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Potts Point than in most other areas, with 57.8% of residents arriving in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by a mix of local relocations and a significant number of new arrivals from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge proportion of the population has changed recently, with 57.8% moving here in the last five years. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%.
57.8% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area is much more diverse than most, as 22.2% of residents arrived from overseas recently. This is well above the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 14.9% for New South Wales.
22.2% ▼ -33.0%
Higher than 89% 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 Potts Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13268/potts-point/topic/mobility-location