49.0% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 41.4%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 49.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Riverstone · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Riverstone
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Riverstone have moved house in the last five years. This high rate of churn makes the area much more mobile than most other parts of the country. The trend has grown steadily, with 49.0% of people arriving since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost half of the population, or 49.0%, moved here in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen by 7.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.5% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the New South Wales and Australian averages.
14.5% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 Riverstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10071/riverstone/topic/mobility-location