39.2% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 37.6%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gosford · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Gosford
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Around the middle of similar areas for mobility, Gosford sees a typical mix of people moving in and out. While nearly 40% of residents have changed homes recently, the area attracts far fewer overseas arrivals than the state or national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.2% of people in Gosford moved house in the last five years, a figure that is about the same as the New South Wales average. This is slightly lower than the national figure of 40.7%, though the proportion of movers has risen by 1.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.1% of the population, which is lower than most areas. This is well below the 14.9% seen across New South Wales and the 14.5% national average, and it has fallen slightly since 2011.
9.1% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 69% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Gosford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10030/gosford/topic/mobility-location