48.8% ▲ +2.4%
Higher than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 47.7%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Newtown · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Newtown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Newtown have moved house in the last five years, making it a highly transient area. This constant churn is driven largely by a huge influx of people from abroad, with 40% of the population arriving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 48.8% of people here changed homes in the last five years, a figure well above the national rate of 40.7%. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011 and is much higher than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 40% of the population, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This has grown significantly over the last decade, rising by 15 percentage points since 2011.
40.0% ▲ +60.3%
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 40.0%
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/317011453/newtown/topic/mobility-location