45.5% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 54.3%
- 2016: 50.4%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Algester · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Algester
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much more mobility than most similar areas defines Algester, where 45.5% of people have changed homes in the last five years. While this is a high proportion of the population, it represents a drop from previous years. The area sees a mix of internal movement and a smaller share of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 46% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure well above the Australian average of 40.7%. This is much higher than most similar areas, although the proportion of people moving has fallen by 8.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.7% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This represents a sharp decline from 2011, when the proportion of new arrivals from overseas was 22.3%.
11.7% ▼ -47.6%
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 11.7%
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 Algester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30001/algester/topic/mobility-location