28.5% ▼ -30.5%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.0%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Broken Hill · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Broken Hill
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than one in five people in Broken Hill arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. While the area attracts international newcomers, it has seen far fewer people moving in from other parts of Australia over the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This rate has fallen 13 points since 2011, meaning fewer people are relocating to the area.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 21.0% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This represents a significant increase from 2011, when only 4.9% of the population had arrived from abroad recently.
21.0% ▲ +326.5%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 21.0%
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113003/broken-hill/topic/mobility-location