39.7% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bellingen · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Bellingen
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Bellingen recently, with the share of residents who changed homes in the last five years rising to 39.7% since 2011. While this shift shows the area is attracting new residents, the vast majority of this growth is coming from within Australia rather than from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 40% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the New South Wales average of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 4.5% of people arrived from overseas recently, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This level of overseas migration has barely changed since 2011.
4.5% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 Bellingen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115014/bellingen/topic/mobility-location