28.5% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 83% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 28.5%
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 have moved into Rural Balance recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 28.5% of residents shifted home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure. This trend of low movement is seen both in people moving between Australian towns and those arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.5% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas and far below the Australian average of 40.7%. This proportion has fallen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.8% of the population, which is much lower than in most other areas. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and represents a drop of 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
6.8% ▼ -40.6%
Lower than 83% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 6.8%
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/SOS53/rural-balance/topic/mobility-location