42.5% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Macquarie · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Port Macquarie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap exists between Port Macquarie and the rest of the country regarding where people come from. While more people have moved into the area recently than in most other places, very few of these arrivals are coming from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.5% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most areas. This is a little above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 7.9% of the population arrived from overseas recently, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 14.9%. This low level of international migration has barely changed over the last decade.
7.9% ▲ +5.5%
Lower than 77% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 Port Macquarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10804/port-macquarie/topic/mobility-location