36.5% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cessnock · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cessnock
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Cessnock recently compared to the rest of the country, with only 36.5% arriving in the last five years. This suggests a more stable population than the national average, as both local moves and overseas arrivals remain relatively low.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While 36.5% of residents moved here in the last five years—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is well below the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.2% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. However, this is well below the figures for both Australia (14.5%) and New South Wales (14.9%).
8.2% ▼ -24.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 Cessnock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10877/cessnock/topic/mobility-location