30.5% ▲ +2.5%
Lower than 73% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 30.5%
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 move in and out of Rural Balance than in most other similar areas. Only 30.5% of residents have changed their home in the last five years, which is a much lower rate than the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 30.5% of people here moved home in the last five years, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 40.7%. This level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.8% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011, when it sat at 6.7%.
7.8% ▲ +15.1%
Lower than 71% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 7.8%
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/SOS63/rural-balance/topic/mobility-location