Fewer New Zealanders are crossing the ditch to live.

Latest figures show just over 18-thousand kiwis migrated to Australia last month.

That's a substantial drop on the 23 thousand who quit the country for Australia in September last year - and well down on the almost 34 thousand who went to went to live there in September 2008.

New Zealand had a net migration gain of one-thousand-100 people last month.

(Source Newstalk ZB)