48.1% ▲ +15.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.5%
- 2016: 47.9%
- 2021: 48.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Strathfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Strathfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Strathfield have moved house recently, making it a very transient place to live. This high turnover is driven by a massive influx of people from abroad, with about 31.7% of the population arriving from overseas in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 48.1% of people moved into the area in the last five years. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Arrivals from overseas are among the highest for similar areas, with 31.7% of residents being recent arrivals. This is far above the 14.5% national figure and the state average of 14.9%.
31.7% ▲ +19.0%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 31.7%
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 Strathfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13690/strathfield/topic/mobility-location