24.3% ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Prestons · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Prestons
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved house recently in Prestons than in other parts of the country. Only 24.3% of residents moved in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable population where most people stay in the same home for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The 24.3% of residents who moved in the last five years is far below the New South Wales rate of 39.9%, and lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.0% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5% and the state's 14.9%.
5.0% ▼ -28.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Prestons [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13272/prestons/topic/mobility-location