42.6% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.4%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Yamba · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Yamba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 42% of people in Yamba have moved house in the last five years. This makes the town's population much more mobile than most similar areas, with a higher proportion of new arrivals than the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.6% of residents moved to Yamba within the last five years. This is a little above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are less common here, with 7.4% of the population arriving from abroad recently. This is well below the New South Wales and Australian figures, which both sit around 14.5% to 14.9%.
7.4% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Yamba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14476/yamba/topic/mobility-location