44.4% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.6%
- 2016: 44.6%
- 2021: 44.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Freshwater · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Freshwater
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 45% of people in Freshwater have moved house in the last five years, making it a very mobile place to live. This high churn of residents means new faces are common, though overseas arrivals are less frequent here than in the rest of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 44.4% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and well above the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.2% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas but well below the Australian figure of 14.5%.
11.2% ▼ -23.0%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Freshwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31087/freshwater/topic/mobility-location