52.8% ▲ +75.7%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 52.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Riverstone · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Riverstone
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of Riverstone's residents have moved here recently, reflecting a rapidly changing population. Over 52% of people arrived in the last five years, which is a much higher rate of movement than seen across the state or the nation.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 52.8% of people moved here in the last five years. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
15.0% ▲ +193.2%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 15.0%
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 Riverstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13383/riverstone/topic/mobility-location