41.5% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Blacktown · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Blacktown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A little over 41% of people in Blacktown have changed their address recently, making it much more mobile than most other areas. This shift toward more frequent moving is a key feature of the region's current growth and movement patterns.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved house in the last five years rose 6.5 percentage points since 2011 to reach 41.5%. This is a little above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and about the same as the national rate.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 14.5%. This represents a small fall of 1.1 percentage points since 2011.
13.8% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 13.8%
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 Blacktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10750/blacktown/topic/mobility-location