25.2% ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Macarthur · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Macarthur
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Just over a quarter of people in Macarthur have changed their home in the last five years. This makes the area much more stable than the rest of the country, where about 40% of people have moved during that time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 25.2% of residents moved recently, a figure that is far below the Victorian and national rates of around 40%. This suggests a population that is much more settled than most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.9% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas, though this remains well below the national figure of 14.5%.
10.9% ▲ +81.2%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 Macarthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21560/macarthur/topic/mobility-location