54.7% ▼ -11.6%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.8%
- 2016: 53.6%
- 2021: 54.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mackay Harbour · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Mackay Harbour
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Mackay Harbour recently than in most similar areas. Over half the population changed their home in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile community with a notable number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is very high, with 54.7% of residents moving house since 2016. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 16.4% of the population, which is much higher than in most other areas. This is a little above both the national figure of 14.5% and the state figure of 13.7%.
16.4% ▼ -37.7%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 Mackay Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31725/mackay-harbour/topic/mobility-location