39.1% ▲ +9.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shoal Bay · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Shoal Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Shoal Bay recently than in most similar areas. While 39.1% of residents arrived in the last five years, this is about the same as the New South Wales figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly four in ten residents, or 39.1%, moved here within the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it sits a little below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.4% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is slightly lower than the 14.9% seen across New South Wales.
13.4% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 13.4%
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 Shoal Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13554/shoal-bay/topic/mobility-location