40.0% ▲ +19.8%
Higher than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Penrith · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Penrith
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Penrith since 2011, with 40% of residents arriving in the last five years. This movement is balanced by a small drop in the number of new arrivals from overseas, which now sits at 8.2%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that rose 6.6 percentage points since 2011. This is about the same as the typical New South Wales and Australian experience.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.2% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen slightly by 1.3 percentage points since 2011.
8.2% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 75% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 Penrith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/12403/penrith/topic/mobility-location