53.3% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.8%
- 2016: 50.8%
- 2021: 53.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bathurst · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Bathurst
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Bathurst have changed their address recently, making it a highly mobile place to live. This movement is driven by both local relocations and a very high number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 53.3% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is far above the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area is welcoming many new international residents, with 27.3% arriving from overseas recently. This is far above the national average of 14.5% and the state figure of 14.9%.
27.3% ▲ +55.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 27.3%
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 Bathurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10231/bathurst/topic/mobility-location