39.3% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 38.4%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Newcastle · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Newcastle
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Newcastle have changed their home in the last five years. This high level of movement reflects a dynamic local population, with a particularly strong share of residents arriving from overseas compared to most other similar areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Recent movement is higher than most areas, with 39.3% of people moving house since 2016. This figure has risen 3.2 percentage points since 2011 and sits about the same as the New South Wales average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 14.4% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the national figure, although the proportion of new arrivals from overseas fell 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
14.4% ▼ -13.5%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 14.4%
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 Newcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102004/newcastle/topic/mobility-location