38.1% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 54% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wollongong · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Wollongong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved from overseas to Wollongong since 2011, though the area remains a popular destination. While recent overseas arrivals fell to 14.7%, the proportion of residents who changed homes in the last five years rose slightly to 38.1%. This reflects a steady but shifting pattern of movement into the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.1% of people moved house in the last five years. This is a little below the figures for New South Wales and Australia, and it has risen by 1.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 14.7% of the population, which is higher than most areas. This figure is about the same as the state and national levels, but it has fallen 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
14.7% ▼ -27.9%
Higher than 61% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 14.7%
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/sa3/10704/wollongong/topic/mobility-location