33.7% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 33.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shoalhaven Heads · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Shoalhaven Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Shoalhaven Heads recently compared to the rest of the country. While 33.7% of residents arrived in the last five years, this is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This trend of stability is mirrored in the very low number of new overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About one third of residents moved here in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the New South Wales rate of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 0.9% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is lower than most areas and sits far below both the state and national figures of around 14.5%.
0.9% ▼ -84.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Shoalhaven Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13555/shoalhaven-heads/topic/mobility-location