38.7% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mackay · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Mackay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 4 in 10 people in Mackay have changed their address recently, making it a place where many residents are still settling in. The movement of people into the area has slowed down over the last decade, and the share of recent overseas arrivals has dropped significantly.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.7% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and has fallen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This is a sharp decrease from 2011, when the share of recent overseas arrivals was 28.1%.
12.8% ▼ -54.3%
Higher than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 12.8%
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 Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34770/mackay/topic/mobility-location