31.4% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wentworth · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Wentworth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A growing number of overseas arrivals now live in Wentworth, where 16.6% of people arrived from another country in the last five years. While international migration is up, the local population is generally more settled than in other parts of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People are less likely to move house here than elsewhere, with 31.4% changing homes in the last five years. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 16.6% of the population, which is a little above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has risen significantly since 2011, when it sat at 8.6%.
16.6% ▲ +93.6%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 16.6%
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/lga/LGA18200/wentworth/topic/mobility-location