44.2% —
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Woolgoolga · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Woolgoolga
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved to Woolgoolga in recent years, with a significant rise in overseas arrivals. This shift is clear in the data, as over a quarter of the population now arrived from another country in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 44% of residents moved to Woolgoolga in the last five years, a figure that rose since 2016 and is well above the national average of 40.7%. This movement is much higher than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.2% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This proportion has climbed 10 points since 2016, placing the area among the highest for recent arrivals.
25.2% —
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 25.2%
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 Woolgoolga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114035/woolgoolga/topic/mobility-location