33.7% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 33.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shoalhaven Heads · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Shoalhaven Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving in and out of Shoalhaven Heads compared to most other parts of the country. Residents here are far more likely to stay put, with only 33.7% having changed homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About a third of the population moved house recently, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This stability is a growing trend, as the proportion of movers fell by 4.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Very few new arrivals from overseas have settled here, making up just 0.9% of the population. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and has fallen since 2011.
0.9% ▼ -56.7%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Shoalhaven Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115125/shoalhaven-heads/topic/mobility-location