56.7% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.4%
- 2016: 52.8%
- 2021: 56.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Nightcliff · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Nightcliff
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Nightcliff have moved house since 2016, making it a very transient area. This high churn is driven by both internal movement and a strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 56.7% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This is among the highest rates of movement seen in similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.4% of the population, which is well above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This high number of new arrivals from abroad helps explain why so many people have moved into the area recently.
24.4% ▼ -35.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 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 Nightcliff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70210/nightcliff/topic/mobility-location