38.4% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 38.4%
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.
More than a third of residents in Newtown have moved house recently, making the area feel quite dynamic. While 38.4% of people have changed homes in the last five years, very few new arrivals are coming from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.4% of people here moved in the last five years, which is much higher than in most similar areas. However, this is still a little below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
New arrivals from overseas make up only 3.1% of the population. This is lower than in most areas and far below the Queensland figure of 13.7%.
3.1% ▼ -81.2%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 3.1%
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/SAL32138/newtown/topic/mobility-location