58.6% ▲ +14.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 51.0%
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 58.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Jacobs Well · Urban Centre
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Jacobs Well recently than in most similar areas. Over half the population changed homes in the last five years, showing a community in a period of significant transition.
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 59% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 40.7% national average. This trend has grown since 2011, when 51% of the area had moved recently.
58.6% ▲ +14.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.5% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion fell from 11.1% in 2011.
7.5% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 62% 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 Jacobs Well [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315045/jacobs-well/topic/mobility-location