52.3% ▼ -33.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 78.7%
- 2016: 60.4%
- 2021: 52.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ashfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Ashfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Ashfield have moved here recently, making it a highly transient area. This constant shift in population is driven by a massive influx of people from overseas, with 40.1% of residents arriving from abroad in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Over half of residents, 52.3%, moved into Ashfield in the last five years. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very common here, with 40.1% of the population arriving from another country recently. This is far above both the state and national figures, which both sit around 14%.
40.1% ▲ +220.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 40.1%
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 Ashfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30091/ashfield/topic/mobility-location