32.3% —
Lower than 94% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Parkes · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Parkes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Recent arrivals from overseas have more than doubled in Parkes since 2011. While the area is now home to a much higher proportion of new overseas residents than most other areas, people are generally less likely to move house here than in other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 32.3% of residents have moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well below the national average of 40.7%. This level of stability has barely changed since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 21.4% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This proportion has risen by 12 percentage points since 2011.
21.4% ▲ +123.7%
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED134/parkes/topic/mobility-location