40.1% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Katoomba · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Katoomba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved here recently than in most similar areas, with 40.1% of Katoomba residents changing homes in the last five years. While this movement is common for the region, the area has a smaller share of new overseas arrivals compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.1% of people moved house in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it is about the same as the New South Wales and national figures.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.1% of the population. This is higher than in most similar areas, but it ever remains well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
9.1% ▲ +73.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Katoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12085/katoomba/topic/mobility-location