44.6% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.1%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 44.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Singleton · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Singleton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher numbers of people have moved into Singleton compared to most similar areas. This shift is seen in both local relocations and people arriving from abroad, with 44.6% of residents moving here in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 45% of residents moved to Singleton in the last five years, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This trend has climbed by 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People arriving from overseas make up 15% of the population, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas. This is about the same as the national rate, but represents a 4.6 percentage point rise since 2011.
15.0% ▲ +44.2%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 15.0%
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 Singleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113014/singleton/topic/mobility-location