40.1% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gunnedah · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Gunnedah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Gunnedah arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is well above the national average. This trend of international movement is matched by a steady flow of people moving into the area from other regions.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.1% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011 and is now about the same as the state and national figures.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 19.7% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This proportion is well above both the New South Wales and Australian figures, and has barely changed since 2011.
19.7% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 19.7%
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 Gunnedah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/110041199/gunnedah/topic/mobility-location