32.9% ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cobar · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Cobar
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into or arrived from overseas in Cobar since 2011. While 21.2% of residents are recent overseas arrivals, this is a big drop from the 36.5% seen a decade ago.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 32.9% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a decline from 2011, when 41.7% of the population had changed homes.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 21.2% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. Despite this high standing, the proportion of new arrivals has fallen by 15 percentage points since 2011.
21.2% ▼ -41.9%
Higher than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 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/sa2/105011093/cobar/topic/mobility-location