40.0% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Murwillumbah · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Murwillumbah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Four out of ten people in Murwillumbah have moved house recently, making it a place with a very high turnover of residents. This churn is driven mostly by people moving from within Australia, as the area sees far fewer new arrivals from overseas than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40% of residents moved into the area in the last five years. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 4.5% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and well below the national average of 14.5%.
4.5% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 Murwillumbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12877/murwillumbah/topic/mobility-location