44.1% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 77% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 44.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Singleton · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Singleton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 44% of residents in Singleton have moved home in the last five years, making it a much more mobile area than most. This high turnover is the main story for the region, with the proportion of people moving in rising significantly since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is common here, with 44.1% of people arriving in the last five years. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This has seen a huge jump from 2011, when only 1.6% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
13.0% ▲ +727.7%
Lower than 51% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 Singleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1029/singleton/topic/mobility-location