City slickers use COVID for sea and tree change | swrighteconomy
The proportion of Australians living in capital cities has fallen for the first time in living memory as people fled to coastal and regional centres to avoid COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.
That was due to a net drop of almost 50,000 people in capitals through the 12-month period compared to an 80,000 lift in Australians outside the capital cities. The biggest losses in Sydney were, like Melbourne, centred on areas with large numbers of students. The CBD has shed 2000 residents, Kensington almost 2300 and Potts Point 2253.
Away from the coast, Ballarat added 2000 residents through the period while along the NSW-Victorian border, the population in both Albury-Wodonga and Echuca-Moama increased. Inland, Dubbo , Orange and Bathurst took in new residents. Some centres such as Tamworth grew but others, such as Parkes and Armidale , defied the trend.
“People have ummed and ahhed about making the shift. Now with COVID, push has come to shove and they’ve done it,” he said.
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