80.9% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 88.8%
- 2016: 90.5%
- 2021: 80.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Acton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Acton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Acton recently than in almost any other similar area. This is a highly transient place where over 80% of residents have changed their address in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 80.9% of people moved house in the last five years, which is far above the ACT figure of 46.1% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area also has a very high proportion of recent overseas arrivals at 42.6%, far exceeding both the ACT (16.7%) and Australia (14.5%).
42.6% ▼ -42.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 74.0%
- 2016: 68.0%
- 2021: 42.6%
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 Acton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80017/acton/topic/mobility-location