33.2% ▼ -20.5%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cobar · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Cobar
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over a fifth of people in Cobar have arrived from overseas recently, making it a much more diverse arrival point than most other areas. While international migration is high, the local population has become more settled over time as fewer people move into the area from elsewhere.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 33.2% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This represents a downward trend, as the proportion of people moving into the area fell by 8.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 21.2% of the population, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This is much higher than most areas, although the proportion of new arrivals fell by 16 percentage points since 2011.
21.2% ▼ -42.4%
Higher than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 21.2%
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 Cobar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11750/cobar/topic/mobility-location