33.0% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
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Migration & Movement in Forbes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people in Forbes have recently arrived from overseas than in most other similar areas. This international influx comes despite a wider trend of residents staying put, as fewer people have moved into the area over the last five years compared to the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 33.0% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the 39.9% seen across New South Wales. This figure has fallen by 4.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.9% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most areas and a little above the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion fell 4.7 percentage points since 2011.
15.9% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 15.9%
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 Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114010/forbes/topic/mobility-location