46.8% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 85% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 45.4%
- 2016: 45.4%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
1 million or more · Section of State Range
Migration & Movement in 1 million or more
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Changing addresses is common for the 46.8% of people in 1 million or more who have moved in the last five years. This high turnover makes the area feel more transient than most other similar places, with a movement rate well above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 47% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most areas and rose slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.4% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure, though this has fallen by 9.8 percentage points since 2011.
14.4% ▼ -40.5%
Higher than 63% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 14.4%
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 1 million or more [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR301/1-million-or-more/topic/mobility-location