41.9% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.5%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Townsend · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Townsend
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 40% of people in Townsend have changed their address in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most similar places, though very few of these new arrivals have come from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.9% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits a little above the New South Wales figure of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 3.8% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is lower than most areas and far below the national figure of 14.5%.
3.8% ▼ -39.2%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Townsend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13946/townsend/topic/mobility-location