41.2% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 40.8%
- 2016: 43.5%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bowral · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Bowral
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Well below the national figure for new overseas arrivals, Bowral is a place where most movement happens internally. While about 41.2% of residents moved here in the last five years, few of these are coming from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 41.2% of people moved to Bowral in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure is a little above the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.2% of the population, which is well below both the state (14.9%) and national (14.5%) figures. Despite being lower than most areas, this proportion rose 2.1 points since 2011.
7.2% ▲ +41.9%
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Bowral [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/114021284/bowral/topic/mobility-location