49.4% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 46.6%
- 2016: 49.7%
- 2021: 49.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balmain · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Balmain
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Balmain have changed their address in the last five years. This high level of movement, combined with a strong number of overseas arrivals, makes the area much more mobile than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.4% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This trend has risen slightly since 2011 and is much higher than in most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 18.1% of the population, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This has fallen slightly since 2011, though it remains much higher than most similar areas.
18.1% ▼ -6.1%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 18.1%
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 Balmain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10004/balmain/topic/mobility-location