34.5% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.8%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cobar · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cobar
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 19% of people in Cobar have recently arrived from overseas, a figure well above the national average. While the town attracts many people from abroad, it has seen fewer internal moves than most other regions in the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.5% of residents have moved house in the last five years. This is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 18.6% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits well above both the state and national figures.
18.6% ▼ -50.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 18.6%
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 Cobar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10948/cobar/topic/mobility-location