34.0% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Parkes · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Parkes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A higher than usual proportion of people in Parkes were born overseas, though few residents have changed homes recently. About 14.3% of the population arrived from another country, while only 34% of the community moved house in the five years before the 2021 census.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 34.0%, which is well below the figures for New South Wales (39.9%) and Australia (40.7%). This level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.3% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the state and national averages. This proportion has fallen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
14.3% ▼ -27.2%
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA16200/parkes/topic/mobility-location