32.1% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 32.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
South Penrith · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in South Penrith
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into South Penrith recently compared to the rest of the country, with only 32.1% of residents changing homes in the last five years. This suggests a stable population where many people stay in the same house for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 32.1% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is well below the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is around the middle for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.9% of the population. This is well below both the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
7.9% ▲ +58.7%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 South Penrith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13612/south-penrith/topic/mobility-location