39.7% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 58% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tweed Heads · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Tweed Heads
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly four in ten people in Tweed Heads have changed their address in the last five years. This steady flow of new residents keeps the local community turning over at a rate similar to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.7% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is about the same as the New South Wales and national rates. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 10.5% of the population, which is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. This share of the community has fallen by 3.6 percentage points since 2011.
10.5% ▼ -25.4%
Lower than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/112031254/tweed-heads/topic/mobility-location