38.7% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 50% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mackay · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Mackay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Mackay have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area's movement patterns fairly typical for its size, though it is less mobile than the Queensland average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 38.7% of residents moved home in the five years before the census. This is a little below the national figure and well below the Queensland rate of 44.8%, and it is 5.2 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Queensland figure. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 28.1% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
12.8% ▼ -54.3%
Higher than 51% of sub-region (sa3) 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/sa3/31202/mackay/topic/mobility-location