40.6% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 53% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 41.7%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ballina · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Ballina
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Recent overseas arrivals have dropped in Ballina, while general movement into the area has remained steady. Since 2011, the proportion of people moving from abroad fell to 9.1%, though around 40% of residents still moved home in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.6% of people moved home in the five years before the 2021 census. This is about the same as the national figure and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.1% of the population, which is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. This proportion has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
9.1% ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1003/ballina/topic/mobility-location