33.8% ▼ -15.5%
Lower than 80% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 40.0%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Prospect · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Prospect
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly 14% of the people in Prospect have arrived from overseas recently. This makes the area about as diverse in its recent arrivals as the rest of the state and country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Residents in Prospect are much less likely to move than people in other areas, with only 33.8% changing homes in the last five years. This figure is well below the national average and has fallen by 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.9% of the population, which is about the same as the New South Wales and Australian figures. This proportion has risen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
13.9% ▲ +24.5%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 13.9%
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 Prospect [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10070/prospect/topic/mobility-location