36.0% ▲ +8.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cooma · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cooma
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 20% of people in Cooma have arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the national figure. While the town sees more movement than most similar areas, a smaller share of its residents have changed homes in the last five years compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is higher than in most similar areas, although it remains well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.9% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits well above the Australian average of 14.5%.
19.9% ▲ +163.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 19.9%
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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11036/cooma/topic/mobility-location