44.3% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 76% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 44.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Maitland · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Maitland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 44.3% of people in Maitland have changed homes in the last five years. This high rate of movement makes the area much more mobile than most other regions. While many people are moving into the area, fewer are arriving from overseas compared to the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Maitland is seeing a lot of movement, with 44.3% of residents moving house since 2016. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and represents a 6.5 percentage point increase since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.9% of the population, which is lower than most areas. This figure is well below the New South Wales average of 14.9% and has fallen by 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
9.9% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 65% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 9.9%
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 Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10602/maitland/topic/mobility-location