45.2% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 42.1%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Macquarie · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Port Macquarie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A much higher share of people have moved to Port Macquarie recently compared to the rest of the country. About 45.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, showing a growing trend of people relocating to the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 45.2% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.4% of the population, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This number has fallen sharply by 12 percentage points since 2011.
9.4% ▼ -55.4%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 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 Port Macquarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1028/port-macquarie/topic/mobility-location