24.3% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Westleigh · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Westleigh
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Westleigh recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 24.3% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is a much lower rate than the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 24.3% of people moved here in the last five years. This is far below the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 4.8% of the population. This is well below the Australian figure of 14.5% and far below the 14.9% for New South Wales.
4.8% ▼ -49.2%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Westleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14277/westleigh/topic/mobility-location