75.1% ▲ +151.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 51.5%
- 2021: 75.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Schofields · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Schofields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A massive 75.1% of people in Schofields have moved house in the last five years, a figure far above the national average. This high level of movement defines the area as a rapidly changing community with a very high number of new residents.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Three quarters of residents moved here in the last five years, which is far above the 39.9% seen across New South Wales. This rate is among the highest for any similar area.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.5% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This is much higher than most other areas.
19.5% ▲ +151.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 19.5%
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 Schofields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13517/schofields/topic/mobility-location