48.8% ▲ +26.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Leichhardt · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Leichhardt
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Leichhardt have moved here in the last five years. This high level of churn makes the area feel very transitional, as many people are still settling into the local community.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.8% of people moved house recently, a figure that is well above both the Queensland (44.8%) and national (40.7%) rates. This is among the highest levels of movement seen across similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
While many people are moving in, overseas arrivals are less common here. Only 8.7% of residents arrived from another country recently, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%.
8.7% ▼ -39.4%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Leichhardt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31650/leichhardt/topic/mobility-location