24.3% ▼ -25.2%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Boston · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Boston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into or through Boston (L) compared to the rest of the state. Only 24.3% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This stability is marked by a complete lack of recent overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 24.3% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages. This is a downward trend for the area, as the proportion of movers fell by 8.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
There were no recent arrivals from overseas in Boston (L), which is far below the 14.5% national average. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when 36.4% of the population had recently arrived from abroad.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Boston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422010/boston/topic/mobility-location