39.5% ▼ -8.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.3%
- 2016: 46.4%
- 2021: 39.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Smithfield Plains · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Smithfield Plains
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of residents have moved house in the last five years, making Smithfield Plains a much more mobile area than most. This high level of local churn happens despite a relatively small number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is a little above the South Australian figure of 36.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.0% of the population. This is well below both the national figure of 14.5% and the state figure of 15.1%.
7.0% ▼ -47.3%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Smithfield Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41347/smithfield-plains/topic/mobility-location