40.1% ▼ -6.3%
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 42.8%
- 2016: 43.1%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mackay · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Mackay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 15.4% of people in Mackay arrived from overseas recently, which is a higher share than in most similar areas. While the city sees a fair bit of movement, the number of people moving in recently has dipped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.1% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is about the same as the national figure, though it is well below the Queensland average of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 15.4% of the population, slightly above the state figure of 13.7%. This proportion has fallen since 2011, when it was 22.0%.
15.4% ▼ -29.9%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 15.4%
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 Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30047/mackay/topic/mobility-location