48.8% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 47.0%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Strathfield · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Strathfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Strathfield have changed homes in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile population. This trend is driven by both local movement and a very high number of people arriving from overseas, making the area much more transient than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.8% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 7 percentage points since 2011 and is much higher than in most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 26.3% of the population, a figure that is far above the New South Wales average of 14.9%. This level of recent migration is among the highest for similar areas and has climbed slightly since 2011.
26.3% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 26.3%
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 Strathfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10077/strathfield/topic/mobility-location