48.7% —
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 47.6%
- 2021: 48.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wentworth · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Wentworth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Wentworth arrived from overseas in the last five years, though this is a drop from 2011. This highly mobile area sees far more people changing homes than most other parts of the country, with almost half the population moving since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost half of all residents (48.7%) moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well above the national average of 40.7%. This level of movement has risen slightly since 2016 and is much higher than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 18.9% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. While this remains much higher than most areas, the proportion of recent arrivals fell from 23.0% in 2011.
18.9% ▼ -17.6%
Higher than 79% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 18.9%
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 Wentworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED145/wentworth/topic/mobility-location