58.0% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.1%
- 2016: 55.4%
- 2021: 58.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Newtown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Newtown have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes the area much more mobile than most other places in Australia, driven by both local moves and a strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 58% of people here have changed homes in the last five years. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the 14.5% seen across Australia.
19.0% ▼ -24.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 19.0%
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12969/newtown/topic/mobility-location