39.8% ▼ -14.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.7%
- 2016: 45.3%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Woongarrah · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Woongarrah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost 40% of residents in Woongarrah have changed their address in the last five years. This high turnover reflects a mobile population, though the area sees far fewer new arrivals from overseas than the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.8% of people have moved home since 2016, which is much higher than most similar areas. This movement is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 5.8% of the population arrived from overseas recently. This is around the middle for similar areas, but well below the state figure of 14.9% and the national figure of 14.5%.
5.8% ▼ -31.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.8%
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 Woongarrah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14433/woongarrah/topic/mobility-location