39.7% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 41.7%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Smiths Lake · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Smiths Lake
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Smiths Lake have moved house recently, making it a place where many residents are still settling in. While locals often move from other parts of the country, very few arrive here directly from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.7% of people moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 3.0% of the population arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is far below both the New South Wales and Australian averages.
3.0% ▲ +41.4%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Smiths Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13579/smiths-lake/topic/mobility-location