39.4% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.8%
- 2016: 38.4%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Inverell · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Inverell
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 29% of the population are recent overseas arrivals, putting Inverell among the highest areas for new migrants at this level. While internal movement is steady, 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 39.4% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure, though the proportion of people moving in has fallen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The share of recent overseas arrivals has risen sharply to 28.8% since 2011. This is far above the national and state figures, which both sit around 14.5% to 14.9%.
28.8% ▲ +100.8%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 28.8%
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 Inverell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114015/inverell/topic/mobility-location