35.9% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kiama · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Kiama
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Kiama recently, though the number of new overseas arrivals has climbed since 2011. While 35.9% of residents moved house in the last five years, the area sees much lower levels of migration compared to state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 35.9% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This proportion has fallen by 1.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.2% of the population, a figure that rose 2.1 percentage points since 2011. This is well below the national average of 14.5%.
6.2% ▲ +52.2%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 6.2%
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 Kiama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113007/kiama/topic/mobility-location