New South Wales was home to 8,072,163 men, women and children or 31.8 per cent of the Australian population according to the August 2021 national census.
The state's total population had grown by 591,935 people since the previous census in 2016.
It was also the state that in the five years before the 2021 Census lost the most people to migration to other states and territories, 102,200 to be exact.
The state’s net migration was an unprecedented drop. No other state or territory experience a net migration as large – in fact net migration for QLD exceeded +100,000 people, which was an unprecedented jump.
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When it came to internal migration within New South Wales over the same five years there was a trasfer of population from Sydney to regional areas.
Of all the Australian capital cities, Sydney experienced the biggest net loss (-49,100), which was 0.9% of the city’s population. Unsurprisingly Brisbane showed a rising net gain in population from internal migration.
In Northern NSW.......
Between August 2016 and August 2021 the ABS SA4 statistical area Richmond-Tweed saw 34,527 people arriving and 29,370 leaving, resulting in a net population gain from movement into the area of 5,157 people.
Between August 2020 and August 2021 the net population gain from movement into the area was 558 people.
The ABS SA4 statistical area Coffs-Grafton in that same five year period saw 19,249 people moving into the area and 16,374 leaving, resulting in a net population gain from movement into the area of 2,875 people.
Between August 2020 and August 2021 the net population gain from movement into the Coffs-Grafton area was only 436 people.
