40.0% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 61% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 39.8%
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Other Urban · Section of State
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Four in ten people in Other Urban have changed their address in the last five years. This high rate of movement shows a mobile population, though the proportion of residents arriving from overseas has dipped slightly since 2011.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and almost identical to the national rate. This level of movement has remained steady since 2011.
40.0% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 61% of section of state areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.8% of the population, which is a little below the Australian average. This figure has fallen by 1.5 percentage points since the 2011 census.
12.8% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 50% of section of state areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Other Urban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS21/other-urban/topic/mobility-location