Analysis of the year of arrival for the overseas born population of SSROC region in 2021 compared to Australia shows that there was a larger proportion of people who arrived before 2001, as well as a larger proportion of recent overseas arrivals (those who arrived between 2016 to Aug 2021).
Overall, 43.6% of the overseas born population arrived before 2001, and 22% arrived during or after 2016, compared with 43.0% and 18.0% respectively for Australia.
The major differences in year of arrival data in the population between SSROC region and Australia are:
- A larger percentage of arrivals between 2016 to Aug 2021 (21.9% compared to 18.0%)
- A larger percentage of arrivals between 1991 to 2000 (13.1% compared to 11.3%)
- A smaller percentage of arrivals between 2001 to 2010 (18.4% compared to 22.1%)
- A smaller percentage of arrivals between Arrived in 1960 or earlier (3.4% compared to 4.9%)