33.1% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
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Migration & Movement in Forbes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A high share of overseas arrivals defines the movement patterns in Forbes, where 15.2% of people moved from another country recently. While international arrivals are common, the local population is generally more settled than people in other parts of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 33.1% of residents have moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This shows people in Forbes are less likely to change addresses than those in most of Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.2% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
15.2% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 15.2%
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 Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11539/forbes/topic/mobility-location