38.6% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 54% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 38.1%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Other Urban · Section of State
Migration & Movement in Other Urban
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Overseas arrivals have increased in Other Urban since 2011, with 17.5% of people now arriving from abroad. This is well above the national figure of 14.5%, though the overall rate of people moving house has stayed mostly steady over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.6% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the Australian figure of 40.7%. This movement rate has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.5% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas. This is well above the national average and has risen by 1.6 percentage points since 2011.
17.5% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 72% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 17.5%
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 Other Urban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS61/other-urban/topic/mobility-location