42.2% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 46.7%
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mackay · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Mackay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 40% of people in Mackay have moved house in the last five years. This high level of mobility makes the area much more dynamic than most similar regions, though the rate of arrivals from overseas has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.2% of residents moved in the last five years, a figure much higher than most similar areas. This is a little above the national figure, although it has fallen 4.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 14.4% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While this is about the same as the Queensland and national figures, it has fallen by 13 percentage points since 2011.
14.4% ▼ -47.8%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 14.4%
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/ucl/UCL311003/mackay/topic/mobility-location