38.8% ▲ +16.1%
Lower than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lake Macquarie · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Lake Macquarie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A changing mix of residents defines Lake Macquarie, where nearly 39% of people have moved into the area in the last five years. While the region is attracting more internal migrants than it did a decade ago, it has seen a sharp drop in the number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.8% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that has risen 5.4 points since 2011. This is slightly lower than the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 6.4% of people are recent arrivals from overseas, which is well below the state and national figures. This represents a significant drop from 2011, when the proportion was 16.7%.
6.4% ▼ -61.7%
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Lake Macquarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10042/lake-macquarie/topic/mobility-location