62.9% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.2%
- 2016: 60.9%
- 2021: 62.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Waitara · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Waitara
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 63% of people in Waitara have moved home in the last five years. This high level of mobility is driven by a large number of new arrivals from overseas, making it one of the most transient areas in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 62.9% of residents moved in the last five years, which is far above the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 28.4% of the population. This is among the highest at this level and sits far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
28.4% ▼ -19.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 28.4%
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 Waitara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14104/waitara/topic/mobility-location