47.3% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 85% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 46.7%
- 2016: 46.5%
- 2021: 47.3%
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.
Far more people have moved to Major Urban recently than in most similar areas. Nearly half of all residents have changed homes in the last five years, while the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has dropped significantly since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.3% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This high level of movement has stayed steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 14.2% of the population, a figure about the same as the Australian average. This is a notable decline from 2011, when the proportion was 23.3%.
14.2% ▼ -39.0%
Higher than 55% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 14.2%
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/SOS30/major-urban/topic/mobility-location