35.6% ▲ +3.9%
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Pittwater · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Pittwater
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Pittwater from overseas since 2011, contributing to a very stable population. This area is now much less mobile than most other parts of the country, with only 35.6% of residents moving house in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.6% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales and national averages. This is a slight increase from 2011, when the figure was 34.3%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up only 7.2% of the population, which is much lower than most areas. This figure has fallen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011 and sits well below the national average of 14.5%.
7.2% ▼ -31.7%
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Pittwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10067/pittwater/topic/mobility-location