37.6% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 69% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Gambier · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Mount Gambier
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into or arrived in Mount Gambier since 2011. While 37.6% of residents changed homes in the last five years, the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has fallen significantly to 12.2%. This reflects a general downward trend in movement for the area over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.6% of people moved house in the last five years, which is lower than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the South Australian average but sits well below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.2% of the population, a figure that has fallen 6.5 percentage points since 2011. This is a little below both the state figure of 15.1% and the national average of 14.5%.
12.2% ▼ -34.7%
Lower than 55% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 12.2%
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 Mount Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4002/mount-gambier/topic/mobility-location