45.9% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 45.5%
- 2016: 45.4%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Armidale · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Armidale
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Armidale have moved house recently, making it a highly mobile community. This constant shift is driven by a very high number of overseas arrivals, with 37.9% of people arriving from abroad in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.9% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well above the national average of 40.7%. This high level of movement has remained steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Armidale has seen a surge in new residents from abroad, with 37.9% arriving from overseas recently. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and has risen by 6.3 percentage points since 2011.
37.9% ▲ +20.0%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 37.9%
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 Armidale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1002/armidale/topic/mobility-location