35.8% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wollongong · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Wollongong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 35.8% of people in Wollongong have moved house in the last five years. This reflects a population that is more settled than those in the rest of the state and country, though the number of people moving has risen slightly since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
At 35.8%, the proportion of people who moved recently is well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%. This represents a modest increase from the 33.7% recorded in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.2% of the population, which is well below the 14.5% seen across Australia. This figure has fallen by 3.1 percentage points since the 2011 census.
11.2% ▼ -21.8%
Lower than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA18450/wollongong/topic/mobility-location