58.5% —
Higher than 91% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 49.9%
- 2021: 58.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wentworthville - Westmead · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Wentworthville - Westmead
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Wentworthville - Westmead have changed homes in the last five years. This is a highly mobile area where 58.5% of residents have moved recently, a figure far above the national average. Much of this movement is linked to international migration, with a very high proportion of the population arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 58.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and has risen by 8.6 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 32.5% of the population, which is far above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This proportion has grown by 3.7 percentage points since the last census, placing the area among the highest for new arrivals.
32.5% —
Higher than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 32.5%
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 Wentworthville - Westmead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/125041589/wentworthville-westmead/topic/mobility-location