41.0% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 68% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Major Urban · Section of State
Migration & Movement in Major Urban
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Higher rates of movement than most similar areas define Major Urban, where 41% of people changed homes recently. This reflects a mobile population that is more likely to relocate than those in other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most areas. This figure has risen by 3.7 percentage points since 2011 and is now about the same as the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.2% of the population, a share higher than most similar areas. This is slightly above the national figure of 14.5%, though the proportion of new overseas arrivals has fallen by 1.7 percentage points since 2011.
15.2% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 59% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 15.2%
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 Major Urban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS10/major-urban/topic/mobility-location