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Riverwood is home to a strong and growing community, offering easy access to public transport and the airport.

The Illawarra Shoalhaven Regional Plan 2041 guides decisions about how land is used in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region for the next 20 years.

The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure and the NSW Government prepare the NSW annual insights as a supplement to the NSW population projections.

Population growth in NSW is beginning to recover from the early impacts of COVID-19 and the international border closure in March 2020.

The latest population change data across NSW regions is for the 2020-21 financial year and reveals the uneven impacts of COVID-19 on different parts of NSW.

There is a long-standing pattern of people moving from Greater Sydney to other parts of NSW, especially young families and people around retirement age.

When births outnumber deaths, this is called natural increase. In NSW, natural increase has been a relatively stable net contributor to population growth.

The closure of international borders at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a marked impact on the age profile of the NSW population.

The recovery of population growth was driven by the re-opening of international borders in 2021, after which we saw a sharp increase in net overseas migration.

Interstate migration refers to the movement of people between NSW and other Australian states and territories involving a change in place of usual residence.