41.4% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wavell Heights · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Wavell Heights
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten residents in Wavell Heights have changed their address recently, suggesting a mobile population where new faces are common. While internal movement is steady, the area has seen a sharp drop in people arriving from overseas in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.4% of people moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the national average, though it is well below the Queensland rate of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals have fallen significantly, with only 9.3% of people arriving from abroad since 2011. This is well below the figures for both Queensland and Australia, and represents a 13 point drop since the 2011 census.
9.3% ▼ -58.7%
Lower than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Wavell Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/302021034/wavell-heights/topic/mobility-location