{"id":30836,"date":"2021-02-17T05:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=30836"},"modified":"2021-02-17T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T16:44:12","slug":"has-covid-really-caused-an-exodus-from-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/has-covid-really-caused-an-exodus-from-our-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Has COVID really caused an exodus from our cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PHOTO: Has there actually been an exodus from the cities to our regional towns?\u00a0<span class=\"photographer\">Photo:\u00a0Emily Godfrey<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"first-para\">Internal migration resulted in a net loss of 11,200 people from Australia\u2019s capital cities in the September quarter of 2020, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/statistics\/people\/population\/regional-internal-migration-estimates-provisional\/latest-release\">data<\/a>\u00a0released this month.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, some regional areas experienced significant\u00a0growth in house prices\u00a0as\u00a0demand for properties\u00a0increased. So this has raised the questions: are we starting to see an\u00a0exodus from our cities, and is this related to the COVID-19 pandemic?<\/p>\n<p>To work out what is happening there are a few important things to consider.<\/p>\n<h2>In Australia we move a lot<\/h2>\n<p>The first thing to keep in mind is that Australia has one of the\u00a0most internally mobile populations\u00a0in the world. About 40 per cent of the population change their addresses at least once within a five-year period. However, the level of internal migration within Australia has\u00a0fallen since the 1990s.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The greatest fall has been for long-distance moves between Australia cities and regions, which\u00a0declined by 25%\u00a0between 1991 and 2016. Moves between states and territories\u00a0fell by 16%\u00a0over this period. An increase or decrease in internal migration from year to year is not unusual.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"align-center zoomable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=1000&amp;fit=clip\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=420&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 600w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=420&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1200w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=420&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 1800w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=528&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 754w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=528&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1508w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/383668\/original\/file-20210211-19-dvgm7d.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=528&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 2262w\" alt=\"chart showing net internal migration figures from September quarter 2010 to September quarter 2020\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" 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