41.5% ▲ +4.1%
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 39.9%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ballina · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Ballina
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved to Ballina recently than in most similar areas, with 41.5% of residents arriving in the last five years. This growth is seen in both local moves and a rise in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.5% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most areas. This figure has risen by 1.7 percentage points since 2011 and sits a little above the New South Wales rate of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.7% of the population, a figure that has risen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011. This is about the same as the Australian average of 14.5%.
13.7% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 13.7%
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 Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10003/ballina/topic/mobility-location