24.9% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 24.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Walgett · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Walgett
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A surprising number of new international residents have settled in Walgett, though few people move here from within Australia. About 17.1% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The local population is very stable, as only 24.9% of people moved house in the last five years. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.1% of the community, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Australian average of 14.5%.
17.1% ▼ -44.8%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 17.1%
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 Walgett [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14114/walgett/topic/mobility-location