46.5% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.5%
- 2016: 45.1%
- 2021: 46.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
St Marys · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in St Marys
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
St Marys (SA) is among the most mobile areas in the region, with a very high proportion of residents moving in recently. Nearly half of the population has changed homes in the last five years, driven largely by a significant number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 46.5% of people here moved house in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and much higher than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.4% of the population, which is among the highest for this type of area. This is well above both the South Australian figure of 15.1% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
24.4% ▼ -45.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.1%
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 24.4%
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 St Marys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41373/st-marys/topic/mobility-location