40.6% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 40.6%
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.
Nearly 41% of people in Newtown have changed their address in the last five years, making it a very mobile area. This high turnover is driven partly by a strong flow of people moving in from other countries.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.6% of residents moved home in the last five years. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Newtown sees a high number of overseas arrivals, with 17.6% of people arriving from another country recently. This is well above the national figure of 14.5% and a little above the Victorian average.
17.6% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 17.6%
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21938/newtown/topic/mobility-location