46.1% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 82% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 42.6%
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 46.1%
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.
Nearly 46% of people in Major Urban have moved house in the last five years, a figure well above the national average. This high level of churn defines the area's mobile population, combined with a significant number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is common here, with 46.1% of residents changing homes in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and rose by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.7% of the population, which is a little above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen from 20.0% in 2011.
16.7% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 69% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
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/SOS80/major-urban/topic/mobility-location