38.6% ▼ -12.4%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.1%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Gambier · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Mount Gambier
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved to Mount Gambier recently than to most similar areas. While 38.6% of residents changed homes in the last five years, a striking 12.7% of the population arrived from overseas, a figure that has risen sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.6% of people moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the South Australian figure. This is a little below the national rate, and the proportion has fallen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.7% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen significantly from 4.4% in 2011, though it remains a little below both the state and national proportions.
12.7% ▲ +189.1%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Mount Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL412003/mount-gambier/topic/mobility-location