31.9% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Narrabri · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Narrabri
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 24% of people in Narrabri arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. This creates a striking contrast in the town's movement patterns, where international arrivals are much more common than locals moving house. While many residents stay put, the area attracts a significant number of new arrivals from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement within Australia is relatively low here, with 31.9% of people moving in the last five years. This is well below the 39.9% seen across New South Wales.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 23.8% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is well above the Australian figure of 14.5%.
23.8% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 23.8%
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 Narrabri [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12912/narrabri/topic/mobility-location