36.4% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 63% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
500 or more · Section of State Range
Migration & Movement in 500 or more
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 6.8% of people in 500 or more arrived from overseas recently, which is much lower than most similar areas. This region sees very little movement, with fewer people changing homes or arriving from abroad than the national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.4% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 40.7%. This rate has fallen by 4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 6.8% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
6.8% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 84% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 500 or more [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR321/500-or-more/topic/mobility-location