36.8% ▲ +8.9%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cooma · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Cooma
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Cooma arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is much higher than in most other similar areas. While a fair number of residents have moved recently, the town has seen a significant surge in people arriving from abroad over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.8% of people moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is well below the figures for New South Wales and Australia, though it has risen 3.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 19.8% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has grown rapidly, rising 12 percentage points since 2011.
19.8% ▲ +142.9%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 19.8%
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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114004/cooma/topic/mobility-location