42.8% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 42.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Johnston · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Johnston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A much higher proportion of people in Johnston have arrived from overseas compared to the national figure. This movement is part of a broader trend where 42.8% of residents have moved house in the last five years, making it a more mobile area than most across the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.8% of residents moved into the area in the last five years, which is higher than most other areas. This figure is a little above the Australian average and has risen by 3.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 21.3% of the population, a figure well above the national average. While this is about the same as the Northern Territory, the proportion of new arrivals has fallen by 9.0 percentage points since 2011.
21.3% ▼ -29.6%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 21.3%
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 Johnston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70015/johnston/topic/mobility-location