43.4% ▲ +50.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 44.3%
- 2021: 43.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Wallsend · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in West Wallsend
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 44% of people in West Wallsend have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most similar places, though very few of these new arrivals have come from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.4% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well above the New South Wales average of 39.9% and higher than most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up only 3.5% of the population, which is far below the national figure of 14.5%.
3.5% ▼ -56.9%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 West Wallsend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14270/west-wallsend/topic/mobility-location