34.2% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Murray · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Murray
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Murray since 2011, but the most striking change is the surge in overseas arrivals. While only 8.9% of residents arrived from abroad in 2011, that figure climbed to 26.2% by 2021, making it one of the highest rates for this type of area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people move house here than in most other areas. Only 34.2% of residents moved in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals is far above the New South Wales average, reaching 26.2%. This is 11 percentage points higher than the state average and 12 points above the national figure.
26.2% ▲ +193.4%
Higher than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 26.2%
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 Murray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10056/murray/topic/mobility-location