46.3% ▼ -8.8%
Higher than 82% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 50.7%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 46.3%
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 more people move into Rural Balance than into most similar areas. Nearly half of all residents have changed homes in the last five years, and nearly a quarter of the population arrived from overseas recently. This makes the area much more mobile than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.3% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well above the Australian figure of 40.7%. While this is much higher than most similar areas, the proportion of movers has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.7% of the population, a figure far above the national average of 14.5%. This is much higher than most similar areas, though the share has dropped from 28.4% in 2011.
24.7% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 82% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 Rural Balance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS83/rural-balance/topic/mobility-location