36.9% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Wardell · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of residents in East Wardell arrived from overseas recently, making it a highly international pocket of the region. While fewer people have moved house here recently compared to the rest of the state, the area sees a very high number of new arrivals from abroad.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.9% of people moved home in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the New South Wales and national figures.
36.9% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 29.4% of the population, which is among the highest for areas of this size. This is far above both the state and national figures, with a gap of 15 percentage points.
29.4% —
Higher than 94% 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 East Wardell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11368/east-wardell/topic/mobility-location