40.5% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 40.6%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coffs Harbour · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Coffs Harbour
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved here from overseas since 2011, with 18.3% of Coffs Harbour residents arriving from abroad recently. This makes the area much more welcoming to new arrivals than most other similar places. While overseas migration has grown, the general rate of people moving house has dipped slightly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most areas. This is about the same as the state and national figures, though it has fallen by 1.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 18.3% of the population, which is well above the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. This proportion has risen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
18.3% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 18.3%
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 Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11800/coffs-harbour/topic/mobility-location