26.9% ▲ +2.8%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Swansea Heads · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Swansea Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Just 26.9% of people in Swansea Heads moved home in the last five years, a figure far below the national average. This makes it a very stable place to live compared to other parts of Australia, despite a fair number of residents arriving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people have moved here lately than in most other areas. At 26.9%, the share of residents who changed homes in the last five years is far below the 39.9% seen across New South Wales.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.9% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this figure remains well below the national average of 14.5%.
10.9% ▲ —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 Swansea Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13727/swansea-heads/topic/mobility-location