61.0% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.3%
- 2016: 58.9%
- 2021: 61.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Westmead · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Westmead
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A staggering 61% of Westmead residents have changed homes in the last five years. This makes it one of the most mobile areas in the region, with a high proportion of people moving in from both within Australia and overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than 6 in 10 people here have moved house recently, a figure far above the 39.9% seen across New South Wales and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
This high mobility is linked to a large number of overseas arrivals. About 35.9% of the population arrived from another country recently, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%.
35.9% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 35.9%
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 Westmead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14278/westmead/topic/mobility-location