39.1% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wallsend · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wallsend
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Wallsend have changed their address in the last five years. This high level of movement is driven by a strong influx of new residents, including a significant number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.1% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.5% of the population. This is well above the national figure of 14.5% and much higher than most other similar areas.
17.5% ▲ +8.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 17.5%
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 Wallsend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14136/wallsend/topic/mobility-location