51.4% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.8%
- 2016: 50.2%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wagga Wagga · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wagga Wagga
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Wagga Wagga have moved here in the last five years. This high level of mobility is driven by both local movement and a massive influx of people from overseas, making it far more dynamic than typical Australian areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 51.4% of people moved to the area in the last five years, a figure that is far above the 40.7% national average and among the highest for similar places.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area has seen a huge increase in overseas arrivals, with 38.1% arriving recently. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
38.1% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.6%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 38.1%
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 Wagga Wagga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14101/wagga-wagga/topic/mobility-location