39.9% ▲ +15.6%
Higher than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cheltenham · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Cheltenham
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Cheltenham over the last decade, with 39.9% of residents arriving in the last five years. This shift shows the area is becoming more mobile, as the proportion of recent movers has risen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.9% of people here moved house in the last five years, which is well above the South Australian figure of 36.9% and roughly the same as the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.8% of the population, a figure that is higher than most areas and slightly above the Australian average, though it has fallen by 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
15.8% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 15.8%
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 Cheltenham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40006/cheltenham/topic/mobility-location