47.4% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 47.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Armidale · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Armidale
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Armidale have moved here in the last five years, making it a highly mobile community. This churn is driven by a massive surge in people arriving from overseas, with 40% of the population arriving from abroad recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 47.4% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure well above the national average of 40.7%. This movement has grown since 2011, placing Armidale among the most mobile areas of its kind.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 40% of the population, which is far above the 14.5% national figure. This has risen sharply by 27 percentage points since 2011.
40.0% ▲ +215.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
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 Armidale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112001/armidale/topic/mobility-location