29.0% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brewarrina · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Brewarrina
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up a striking 34% of the population in Brewarrina, a figure far above the national average. While many of these new residents have arrived from abroad, the town has seen far fewer people moving in from other Australian areas compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 29% of residents moved to Brewarrina in the last five years. This is far below the 40.7% seen across Australia and is around the middle for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very common here, with 34% of the population arriving from another country recently. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and among the highest for similar areas.
34.0% ▲ +27.7%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 34.0%
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 Brewarrina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10560/brewarrina/topic/mobility-location