37.5% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kiama · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Kiama
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have recently moved to Kiama from overseas compared to the rest of the state. While 37.5% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, the number of new arrivals from abroad has dropped sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This is well below the national average and represents a 2.0 percentage point increase since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up only 5.7% of the population, which is well below the 14.9% seen across New South Wales. This figure has fallen by 10.0 percentage points since 2011, placing Kiama among the lowest areas for new overseas arrivals.
5.7% ▼ -63.8%
Lower than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Kiama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10039/kiama/topic/mobility-location