47.0% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.1%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tamworth · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Tamworth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Tamworth have changed their address recently, marking a much higher movement rate than the national average. This high level of churn is seen both in people moving from other Australian towns and a significant number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.0% of people here moved house in the last five years, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national average of 40.7%. This rate of movement is much higher than in most other similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 20.6% of the population. This is well above the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 14.9% for New South Wales, a figure that is much higher than in most other areas.
20.6% ▲ +71.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 20.6%
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 Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13762/tamworth/topic/mobility-location