34.3% ▲ +11.9%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bankstown · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Bankstown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A larger share of people have moved into Bankstown since 2011, though the area remains more stable than most. Only 34.3% of residents shifted homes in the five years before the 2021 Census, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Bankstown has seen fewer people moving in and out than most other areas, with 34.3% of residents arriving in the last five years. This is well below the New South Wales rate of 39.9%, even though the figure rose 3.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.8% of the population, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. This is a little below the Australian average of 14.5%.
11.8% ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 11.8%
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 Bankstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10005/bankstown/topic/mobility-location