43.5% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.1%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Waratah · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Waratah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people are moving into and out of Waratah than in most similar areas. This high level of mobility is seen both in people switching local addresses and the significant number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 43.5% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and a little above the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 19.5% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the figures for both New South Wales (14.9%) and Australia (14.5%).
19.5% ▲ +14.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 19.5%
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 Waratah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14159/waratah/topic/mobility-location