49.6% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.9%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 49.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Byron Bay · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Byron Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Byron Bay have moved house within the last five years. This high turnover makes the area far more mobile than most of the country, with a huge influx of both domestic and international newcomers.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 50% of people here changed homes in the last five years. This is well above the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the 40.7% national figure, placing Byron Bay among the highest for movement in the region.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 33.8% of the population. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
33.8% ▲ +48.5%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 33.8%
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 Byron Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10731/byron-bay/topic/mobility-location