41.1% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 42.4%
- 2016: 41.7%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coffs Harbour · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Coffs Harbour
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Coffs Harbour have arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the national figure. This high rate of new arrivals has grown since 2011, while the number of people moving house within Australia has remained steady.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.1% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is around the middle for similar areas and is a little above the New South Wales rate of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.9% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most areas. This is well above the Australian average of 14.5% and has risen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
18.9% ▲ +15.6%
Higher than 78% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 18.9%
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 Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1011/coffs-harbour/topic/mobility-location