42.4% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Macquarie · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Port Macquarie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten people in Port Macquarie have changed their address in the last five years. This high level of movement shows the area is attracting new residents, although very few of these arrivals are coming from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.4% of people moved house in the five years before 2021, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure is a little above the national average and has risen 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 7.9% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. This proportion has fallen 3.9 percentage points since 2011.
7.9% ▼ -32.8%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 Port Macquarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10068/port-macquarie/topic/mobility-location