37.6% ▲ +82.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wakefield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wakefield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Residential stability has increased in Wakefield since 2011, with fewer people moving house than in previous years. About 37.6% of residents arrived within the last five years, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but sits below state and national levels.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While 37.6% of people moved here in the last five years, this is a little below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and well below the Australian average of 40.7%.
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 Wakefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14106/wakefield/topic/mobility-location