43.6% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 40.1%
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Newcastle · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Newcastle
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people are moving into Newcastle than in most other parts of the country. Nearly 44% of residents have changed their address in the last five years, making it a highly mobile area. This trend is underpinned by a significant number of people arriving from overseas to settle in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Changing homes is common here, with 43.6% of people moving in the last five years. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and has risen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.4% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. While this is still much higher than most areas, the proportion of new arrivals fell 2.9 percentage points since 2011.
19.4% ▼ -12.9%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 19.4%
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 Newcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15900/newcastle/topic/mobility-location