36.2% ▼ -15.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 42.9%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cessnock · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Cessnock
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Cessnock recently compared to the rest of the country. While 36.2% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, this is well below the national figure. The area is also seeing a significant drop in the number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.2% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This reflects a downward trend for the area, as the proportion of movers has fallen 6.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.5% of the population, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas but well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This has seen a sharp decline from 2011, when the figure was 19.5%.
7.5% ▼ -61.5%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 7.5%
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 Cessnock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112005/cessnock/topic/mobility-location