39.5% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 39.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cessnock · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Cessnock
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved here from overseas than in the rest of the state, making Cessnock a place with very low recent international migration. While about 39.5% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, the number of new arrivals from abroad has fallen over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Roughly 39.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure. This is a rise of 5.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.1% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 3.8 percentage points since 2011.
8.1% ▼ -31.9%
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Cessnock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10017/cessnock/topic/mobility-location