35.8% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Higgins · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Higgins
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of people in Higgins have changed their address in the last five years. While this is higher than in most similar areas, the movement is still well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.8% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is far below the 46.1% seen across the ACT and well below the Australian figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.5% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. However, this is well below the 14.5% national average and the 16.7% across the ACT.
10.5% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Higgins [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80073/higgins/topic/mobility-location