42.7% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
New Moonta · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A stark contrast defines New Moonta, where a high number of people have moved house recently despite almost no new arrivals from overseas. While over 40% of the population has changed homes in the last five years, the area remains very disconnected from international migration patterns.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.7% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is a little above the national figure of 40.7%, though it sits a little below Queensland's 44.8%.
42.7% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No one in the area arrived from overseas recently. This 0.0% figure is far below both the Queensland rate of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in New Moonta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32132/new-moonta/topic/mobility-location