39.8% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.1%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Thomson · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher proportions of people have moved into Thomson recently compared to most similar areas. Around 40% of residents have shifted house in the last five years, and 13.2% of the population arrived from overseas in that time.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.8% of people here moved home in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
39.8% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.2% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though this is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
13.2% ▼ -45.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Thomson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22506/thomson/topic/mobility-location