39.9% ▲ +8.3%
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
New South Wales · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in New South Wales
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 40% of people in New South Wales have changed their home in the last five years. This reflects a steady increase in movement across the state since 2011, with migration levels sitting right around the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 39.9% of residents moved house in the five years before the 2021 census, which is about the same as the national figure of 40.7%. This represents a rise of 3.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 14.9% of the population, a figure slightly higher than the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 1.3 percentage points since 2011.
14.9% ▼ -8.2%
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 14.9%
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 New South Wales [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/1/new-south-wales/topic/mobility-location