48.8% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.4%
- 2016: 51.0%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rockdale · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Rockdale
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Rockdale have moved house since 2016, marking a period of significant population turnover. This high rate of movement is driven by a massive influx of people from abroad, with more than a quarter of the population arriving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost half of the people here (48.8%) moved in the last five years. This is well above the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 27.2% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5% and the state average of 14.9%.
27.2% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 27.2%
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 Rockdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13394/rockdale/topic/mobility-location