36.9% ▲ +2.4%
- 2011: 36.0%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
South Australia · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in South Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved from overseas into South Australia since 2011. While about 15.1% of residents arrived from another country recently, the state is much less mobile than other parts of Australia, with far fewer people changing homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 36.9% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is one of the lowest rates of moving among similar areas, though it has risen slightly by 0.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.1% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average of 14.5%. However, this figure has fallen by 3.7 percentage points since 2011.
15.1% ▼ -19.6%
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 15.1%
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 South Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/4/south-australia/topic/mobility-location