28.6% ▲ +15.8%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Broken Hill · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Broken Hill
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people move in and out of Broken Hill than in most similar areas. While the community is generally stable, it has seen a notable increase in people arriving from overseas in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.6% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 39.9%. This is among the lowest rates for this type of area, though it has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 20.5% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has grown by 6 percentage points over the last decade.
20.5% ▲ +41.2%
Higher than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 20.5%
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1007/broken-hill/topic/mobility-location