40.0% ▼ -2.5%
Lower than 53% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 41.0%
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Newcastle - Maitland · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Newcastle - Maitland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Forty per cent of people in Newcastle - Maitland have moved home in the last five years. This makes the region's movement patterns very similar to the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.0% of residents moved house since 2016, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 39.9%, though the rate fell slightly from 41.0% in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.2% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
13.2% ▼ -20.7%
Higher than 50% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Newcastle - Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1025/newcastle-maitland/topic/mobility-location