35.5% ▼ -1.6%
Lower than 69% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dubbo · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Dubbo
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than one in five people in Dubbo arrived from overseas recently, making it a much more diverse place than most Australian areas. While local movement has stayed steady, the city has seen a significant jump in people moving here from abroad over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 35.5% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is well below the national figure of 40.7% and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 21.3% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This proportion has risen by 7.4 percentage points since 2011.
21.3% ▲ +53.8%
Higher than 86% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 21.3%
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 Dubbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10503/dubbo/topic/mobility-location