35.8% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Kempsey · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in West Kempsey
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into West Kempsey recently compared to the state and national averages. While 35.8% of residents changed homes in the last five years, this is well below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 35.8% of people moved home in the last five years. This is higher than in most similar areas, but remains well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.3% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it is well below both the New South Wales rate of 14.9% and the national figure of 14.5%.
8.3% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 8.3%
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 West Kempsey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14264/west-kempsey/topic/mobility-location