35.3% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Garfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Garfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Just 6.8% of people in Garfield arrived from overseas recently, a figure well below the national and state averages. This indicates a population that is more stable and less influenced by recent international migration than most other parts of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.3% of residents moved home in the last five years. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is still well below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals is 6.8%, which is around the middle for its level. This is much lower than the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 15.6% for Victoria.
6.8% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Garfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20966/garfield/topic/mobility-location