37.7% ▼ -17.5%
Lower than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 45.8%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Penrith · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Penrith
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in overseas arrivals is the biggest story for Penrith, where the share of new migrants fell by 18 percentage points since 2011. This means the area is now much less likely to see new arrivals from abroad compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.7% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This is also a drop from 2011, when 45.8% of the population had moved recently.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.6% of the population, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This reflects a significant downward trend from 2011, when this group accounted for 27.3% of residents.
9.6% ▼ -64.8%
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Penrith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10066/penrith/topic/mobility-location