30.9% ▼ -6.2%
Lower than 71% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rural Balance · Section of State
Migration & Movement in Rural Balance
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into Rural Balance compared to the rest of the country. Only 30.9% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people moving home is lower than in most similar areas. This figure has fallen slightly since 2011, moving from 33.0% to 30.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 6.7% of people here arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is much lower than most other areas. This is well below the Australian average of 14.5% and has dropped since 2011.
6.7% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 83% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Rural Balance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS33/rural-balance/topic/mobility-location