35.1% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Upper Hunter Shire · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Upper Hunter Shire
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have recently arrived from overseas in Upper Hunter Shire than in most similar areas. While 25.1% of residents moved here from another country recently, the area has seen a slight drop in overall movement since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.1% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This represents a small fall from 2011, when the rate was 36.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 25.1% of the population, a figure far above both New South Wales and the Australian average. This proportion has risen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
25.1% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 25.1%
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 Upper Hunter Shire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17620/upper-hunter-shire/topic/mobility-location