42.2% ▲ +20.7%
Higher than 66% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Croydon · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Croydon
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 42% of people in Croydon moved house in the last five years, making it a very mobile area. This shift is partly driven by a high number of people arriving from overseas, with one in five residents moving here from another country recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people have moved into Croydon lately than in most other areas, with 42.2% changing homes since 2016. This is well above the South Australian figure of 36.9% and represents a 7.2 percentage point increase since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 20.0% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. While this is well above the national figure of 14.5%, the proportion of new arrivals has fallen by 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
20.0% ▼ -19.8%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 Croydon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40008/croydon/topic/mobility-location