41.0% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coffs Harbour · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Coffs Harbour
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten residents have moved to Coffs Harbour in the last five years, making it a highly mobile community. This shift is driven by a strong pull for new arrivals, with a particularly high number of people moving into the area from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41% of people here changed homes in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen by 4.4 percentage points since 2011 and sits slightly above the New South Wales rate.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 18.6% of the population, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This has grown significantly over the last decade, rising from 12.6% in 2011.
18.6% ▲ +47.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 18.6%
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 Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL111002/coffs-harbour/topic/mobility-location