69.0% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.6%
- 2016: 65.2%
- 2021: 69.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Adelaide · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Adelaide
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A massive shift in residency has seen 69% of Adelaide residents move house in the last five years. This high level of churn is driven by a huge influx of people from abroad, making the area far more mobile than the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement is very high here, with 69% of people arriving in the last five years. This is far above the South Australian figure of 36.9% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are among the highest at this level, with 48.3% of people arriving recently. This is far above the 15.1% seen in South Australia and the 14.5% national average.
48.3% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.9%
- 2016: 57.0%
- 2021: 48.3%
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 Adelaide [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40002/adelaide/topic/mobility-location