29.4% ▼ -3.0%
Lower than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wellington · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Wellington
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people are arriving from overseas than in other similar areas, giving Wellington a changing face. While few locals have moved house recently, 16.2% of the population arrived from another country in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People in Wellington are far less likely to move home than those in other areas, with only 29.4% changing addresses in the last five years. This is far below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The number of recent overseas arrivals has risen sharply to 16.2%, up from just 3.7% in 2011. This is a little above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
16.2% ▲ +343.0%
Higher than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 16.2%
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 Wellington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/105031106/wellington/topic/mobility-location