27.6% ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hay · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Hay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A surprisingly high proportion of overseas arrivals live in Hay, even though the town has very few people moving between homes. While 23% of the population arrived from another country recently, only 27.6% of residents have changed their address in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People in Hay tend to stay put, with the 27.6% who moved in the last five years being far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national rate of 40.7%. This level of movement is lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 23% of the population, which is among the highest for areas of this type. This is well above both the New South Wales (14.9%) and Australian (14.5%) figures.
23.0% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 23.0%
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 Hay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11881/hay/topic/mobility-location