37.9% ▲ +9.2%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Blacktown · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Blacktown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher proportions of recent overseas arrivals than most other areas live in Blacktown. Around 18.1% of the population arrived from another country in the last five years, while internal movement remains steady with 37.9% of people having changed homes recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.9% of people moved homes in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This figure has risen by 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 18.1% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This level of migration has barely changed since 2011.
18.1% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 18.1%
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 Blacktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10010/blacktown/topic/mobility-location