42.4% —
Higher than 65% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Paterson · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Paterson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in overseas arrivals has shifted the movement patterns in Paterson since 2011. While fewer people are moving here from abroad, 42.4% of the population has changed their home in the last five years, which is a little above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than four in ten people moved house recently, a figure that has risen 2.4 percentage points since 2016. This is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the New South Wales rate of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.3% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This is a significant change from 2011, when the proportion was 25.6%.
9.3% ▼ -63.5%
Lower than 77% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Paterson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED136/paterson/topic/mobility-location