28.2% ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 91.3%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gilgandra · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Gilgandra
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a quarter of people in Gilgandra arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. While new international arrivals have surged, the town has seen far fewer people moving in from other parts of Australia over the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is much lower than most similar areas. This figure is far below the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and has fallen 6.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.3% of the population, which is among the highest for areas of this size. This is far above the national figure of 14.5% and has risen by 14 percentage points since 2011.
25.3% ▲ +118.0%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 25.3%
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 Gilgandra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115065/gilgandra/topic/mobility-location