44.0% ▲ +2.0%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 43.1%
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wagga Wagga · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Wagga Wagga
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Wagga Wagga recently than in most similar areas. About 44% of residents arrived within the last five years, and overseas arrivals are especially common here.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is well above the national figure, with 44% of people moving here in the last five years. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 27.2% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9% and among the highest for this type of area.
27.2% ▲ +4.1%
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 27.2%
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 Wagga Wagga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17750/wagga-wagga/topic/mobility-location