43.6% ▲ +4.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hawks Nest · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved to Hawks Nest recently than in most other similar areas. Around 43.6% of residents arrived in the last five years, making it a more transient place than the typical Australian suburb.
People who moved in the last five years.
Recent movement is a big story here, with 43.6% of people moving in since 2016. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and a little above the national rate.
43.6% ▲ +4.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are less common here than in other parts of the country. Only 8.3% of people arrived from abroad recently, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%.
8.3% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 58% 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 Hawks Nest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11880/hawks-nest/topic/mobility-location