32.8% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 32.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wakefield · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Wakefield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into or arrived from overseas in Wakefield since 2011. The area is now less mobile than most of the state, with only 8.1% of residents being recent arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 32.8% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.1% of the population, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This has dropped by 3.8 percentage points since 2011.
8.1% ▼ -31.8%
Lower than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Wakefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA48130/wakefield/topic/mobility-location