39.6% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 57% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 42.0%
- 2016: 43.5%
- 2021: 39.6%
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.
Major Urban sits around the middle of similar areas for how often people move in and out. About 40% of the population has changed homes in the last five years, though the number of recent overseas arrivals has dropped sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Roughly 39.6% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.7% of the population, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This has seen a significant decline, falling 12 percentage points since 2011.
10.7% ▼ -53.8%
Lower than 58% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 10.7%
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 Major Urban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS50/major-urban/topic/mobility-location