28.3% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Alpha · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Alpha
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 28.3% of people in Alpha have moved home in the last five years, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much more stable than most other places. While few residents move locally, the proportion of people born overseas remains consistent with the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people have moved into Alpha recently compared to most other areas. This 28.3% figure is 12 points lower than the national average and has fallen 6.6 points since 2011.
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 Alpha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322002/alpha/topic/mobility-location