46.0% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.1%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 46.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mawson · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Mawson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Mawson have moved here within the last five years, creating a highly mobile population. This constant churn of people means the neighbourhood is frequently welcoming new faces into the community.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46% of people moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 40.7%. This rate is about the same as the overall ACT average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 22.8% of the population, a figure well above both the ACT (16.7%) and Australia (14.5%). This is much higher than in most other similar areas.
22.8% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 22.8%
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 Mawson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80092/mawson/topic/mobility-location