37.5% ▲ +6.0%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 41.2%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Central Coast · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Central Coast
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into the Central Coast from overseas since 2011. While more residents have changed homes in the last five years, the area remains less mobile than most of the country, with 37.5% of people moving recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.5% of people moved home in the last five years, which is lower than most areas. This figure is a little below the New South Wales rate and well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 6.9% of the population arrived from overseas recently, a figure that fell 4.6 percentage points since 2011. This is well below both the state and national figures, which sit around 14.5% to 14.9%.
6.9% ▼ -40.2%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Central Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1010/central-coast/topic/mobility-location