49.5% ▲ +16.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 49.7%
- 2021: 49.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Macgregor · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Macgregor
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost half of the people in Macgregor have moved house recently, marking a significant shift in the area's population. This high turnover is driven by both local movers and a very strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.5% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is well above the figures for Queensland (44.8%) and Australia (40.7%), placing Macgregor among the areas with the highest movement rates.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 22.6% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is well above the national average of 14.5% and the Queensland figure of 13.7%.
22.6% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 22.6%
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 Macgregor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31721/macgregor/topic/mobility-location