49.2% ▲ +26.3%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 49.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Byron Bay · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Byron Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Byron Bay have moved here in the last five years, creating a highly transient population. This shift toward a more mobile community is seen in both the high number of people moving from other towns and a massive surge in arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 50% of people have changed their address in the last five years, a figure well above the national average and among the highest for similar areas. This trend has grown steadily, rising by 10 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.4% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales and national figures. This has seen a dramatic increase from just 6% in 2011.
29.4% ▲ +388.0%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 29.4%
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 Byron Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113004/byron-bay/topic/mobility-location