48.8% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.6%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 48.8%
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.
Almost half of the people in Newtown have moved house in the last five years. This high level of mobility is driven by a huge influx of new residents from abroad, with 40% of the population arriving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 48.8% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure well above the national average of 40.7% and higher than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The number of recent overseas arrivals is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7%, with 40% of people in Newtown arriving from abroad recently.
40.0% ▲ +61.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 40.0%
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/SAL32139/newtown/topic/mobility-location