28.6% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 94% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hawkesbury · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Hawkesbury
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Few people have moved into Hawkesbury recently, and the share of new overseas arrivals has actually fallen since 2011. It is an area where residents tend to stay put, with far fewer people changing homes or arriving from abroad compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.6% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. While this is among the lowest rates for similar areas, the proportion of people moving has risen slightly by 1.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 3.3% of the population, a figure far below the 14.9% seen across New South Wales. This share has fallen from 4.5% in 2011, leaving the area among the lowest for new arrivals from overseas.
3.3% ▼ -27.1%
Lower than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Hawkesbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11503/hawkesbury/topic/mobility-location