43.1% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 43.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Macquarie Fields · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Macquarie Fields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten people in Macquarie Fields have changed their address recently, making it a highly mobile area. This trend of moving home has grown since 2011, though the local share of new arrivals from overseas has dropped.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.1% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most areas. This figure is well above the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and has risen 7.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.4% of the population, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
9.4% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 9.4%
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 Macquarie Fields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10048/macquarie-fields/topic/mobility-location