47.0% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 46.4%
- 2016: 44.4%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Pumicestone · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Pumicestone
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Pumicestone have moved house in the last five years. This high rate of movement marks the area as much more mobile than most similar places, though the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has dropped significantly.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.0% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure well above the national average of 40.7%. This trend has remained steady since 2011, when the rate was 46.4%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 6.2% of the population, which is much lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 14.5%. This is a sharp decline from 2011, when the proportion was 15.4%.
6.2% ▼ -59.8%
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.2%
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 Pumicestone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30070/pumicestone/topic/mobility-location