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ABS data confirms a city exodus during COVID, with biggest internal migration loss on record
It’s official. Australia’s capital cities really have been losing people in record numbers during COVID. But will tree changers stay put in the country, or flock back to the big smoke?
Key points:
- ABS data shows Australia’s capital cities had a net loss of 11,200 people in the September quarter
- That was the largest quarterly net loss on record
- The quarter coincided with the end of Australia’s first COVID lockdown
Provisional internal migration data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the nation’s capital cities had a net loss of 11,200 people during July, August and September last year.
That was the largest quarterly net loss since records began in 2001.
Internal migration is the movement of people across a specified boundary…
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