38.8% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
South Tamworth · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in South Tamworth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge surge in overseas arrivals has changed the face of South Tamworth since 2011. While nearly 40% of the people here have changed homes in the last five years, the most striking figure is that 31.3% of the population arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.8% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it sits a little below the New South Wales and national figures.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 31.3% of the population. This is among the highest rates for areas of this type and is far above the national figure of 14.5%.
31.3% ▲ +115.6%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 31.3%
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 South Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13613/south-tamworth/topic/mobility-location