44.3% ▼ -8.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 47.5%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shell Cove · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Shell Cove
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 44% of residents in Shell Cove have moved house in the last five years, a rate much higher than most similar areas. This high level of mobility stands in contrast to the number of new arrivals from overseas, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Recent movement is high here, with 44.3% of people moving in the last five years. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 6.8% of the population, which is around the middle for similar areas. However, this is well below the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 14.9% recorded in New South Wales.
6.8% ▼ -47.6%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 Shell Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13547/shell-cove/topic/mobility-location