43.8% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 42.7%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dubbo · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Dubbo
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Dubbo since 2011, with a significant rise in both local and overseas arrivals. Over a quarter of residents arrived from abroad in the last five years, making it a much more diverse place than it used to be.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Dubbo sees a lot of movement, with 43.8% of people moving house in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and reflects a 6.6 percentage point increase since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very high here, with 25.2% of people arriving from another country recently. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and rose 11 points since 2011.
25.2% ▲ +73.5%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 25.2%
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 Dubbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112006/dubbo/topic/mobility-location