41.5% ▼ -4.2%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.4%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Leeton · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Leeton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A surge in new arrivals has reshaped the local population in Leeton. Nearly a third of all residents moved here from overseas in the last five years, making it one of the most welcoming hubs for migrants in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.5% of people moved home in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though the figure fell slightly from 43.4% in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 30.5% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. This represents a huge increase from 2011, when only 5.9% of residents had arrived recently from abroad.
30.5% ▲ +418.1%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 30.5%
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 Leeton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114016/leeton/topic/mobility-location