36.0% ▲ +8.6%
Lower than 58% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cooma · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Cooma
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have arrived from overseas in Cooma than in the typical Australian town. While a smaller proportion of the local population has moved house recently compared to the state average, the number of new arrivals from abroad has surged in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 36% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a slight increase from 2011, when the rate was 33.2%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 19.9% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This represents a significant rise from 2011, when only 7.3% of residents had arrived from abroad recently.
19.9% ▲ +173.3%
Higher than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 19.9%
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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/101031014/cooma/topic/mobility-location