40.0% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Foster · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Foster
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Four in ten people in Foster have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area more mobile than most similar places, though it matches the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.0% of residents moved here within the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.2% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the state and national rates. This has fallen by 1.9 percentage points since 2011.
9.2% ▼ -17.3%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 9.2%
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 Foster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215034/foster/topic/mobility-location