42.9% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 42.3%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dubbo · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Dubbo
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Recent growth in overseas arrivals has shaped the movement patterns in Dubbo. While the proportion of people moving house has stayed steady since 2011, the number of new arrivals from abroad has climbed significantly to 24.8%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.9% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is a little above the national figure of 40.7% and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Dubbo sees far more recent overseas arrivals than the rest of the country, with 24.8% of people arriving from abroad. This figure is well above the New South Wales average of 14.9% and has risen by 5.8 percentage points since 2011.
24.8% ▲ +30.8%
Higher than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 24.8%
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 Dubbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1012/dubbo/topic/mobility-location