35.6% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cobar · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Cobar
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have recently arrived from overseas in Cobar than in most other parts of Australia. While 19.4% of residents moved here from abroad recently, the town has seen fewer internal movers than the state average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.6% of people moved to Cobar in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 4.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.4% of the population, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 14.9%. This has grown steadily, rising 6.8 percentage points since 2011.
19.4% ▲ +54.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 19.4%
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 Cobar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115039/cobar/topic/mobility-location