46.4% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 51.4%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 46.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Calala · Urban Centre
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Calala have changed their home in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by both local movement and a growing number of people arriving from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.4% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement is among the highest for similar areas, though it has fallen by 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
46.4% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.8% of the population, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 14.9%. This proportion has risen by 8.3 percentage points since 2011, leaving the area much higher than most other places.
19.8% ▲ +73.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Calala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115035/calala/topic/mobility-location