49.5% ▲ +16.4%
Higher than 84% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 49.7%
- 2021: 49.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Macgregor · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Macgregor
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Macgregor have changed their address in the last five years. This high turnover makes it a very mobile area, where a large number of people are settling in from other regions or from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.5% of people moved house recently, a figure well above the national mark of 40.7%. This rate has risen by 7.0 percentage points since 2011, meaning the area is much more transient than most others.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 22.6% of the population, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.7%. While this remains much higher than in most areas, it has fallen by 12 percentage points since 2011.
22.6% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 22.6%
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 Macgregor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/303031061/macgregor/topic/mobility-location