53.2% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.9%
- 2016: 50.9%
- 2021: 53.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dee Why · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Dee Why have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover reflects a very mobile population, with a particularly strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 53.2% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far above the 40.7% national figure and among the highest rates for similar areas.
53.2% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 22.4% of the population. This is much higher than most areas and well above the 14.5% seen across Australia.
22.4% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Dee Why [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11229/dee-why/topic/mobility-location