44.8% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 42.4%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Tamworth · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap exists between East Tamworth and the rest of the country when it comes to new arrivals. Over 44% of the population moved here in the last five years, making it a much more mobile area than most of Australia.
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving house is common here, with 44.8% of people arriving in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and the state rate of 39.9%.
44.8% ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area sees a very high number of people arriving from overseas. At 35.4%, this is far above the 14.5% national figure and the New South Wales rate of 14.9%.
35.4% ▲ +83.8%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in East Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11366/east-tamworth/topic/mobility-location