54.3% ▲ +31.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.4%
- 2016: 46.5%
- 2021: 54.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Penrith · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Penrith
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Penrith have moved house in the last five years. This high level of churn makes the area far more mobile than the rest of the state. It is a dynamic place where many residents have recently arrived from other regions or from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 54.3% of residents moved into the area in the last five years. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and is far above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.3% of the population. This is much higher than most areas, though it is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
15.3% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 15.3%
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 Penrith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13195/penrith/topic/mobility-location