31.7% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coober Pedy · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Coober Pedy
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Coober Pedy recently, though it maintains a steady flow of international arrivals. While only 31.7% of residents arrived in the last five years, a notable 16.1% of the population are recent overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People are less likely to move here than in other areas, with 31.7% arriving in the last five years. This is well below the national figure of 40.7% and has fallen by 4.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 16.1% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This figure is a little above the national rate of 14.5% and has barely changed since 2011.
16.1% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 16.1%
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 Coober Pedy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415010/coober-pedy/topic/mobility-location