43.1% ▲ +21.7%
Higher than 72% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 43.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tamworth · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Tamworth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 31% of people in Tamworth arrived from overseas recently, which is far above the national figure. This high level of recent international arrival has contributed to a more mobile population, with many residents moving into the area over the last few years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.1% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average. This proportion has risen by 7.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 31.4% of the population, which is far above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This figure has jumped 22 percentage points since 2011, placing Tamworth among the highest areas for recent arrivals.
31.4% ▲ +251.0%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 31.4%
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 Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1032/tamworth/topic/mobility-location