29.7% ▲ +21.2%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Woy Woy Bay · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Woy Woy Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving in and out of Woy Woy Bay compared to most other parts of the country. Only 29.7% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, suggesting a very stable population where people tend to stay put.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 29.7% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7% and the New South Wales rate of 39.9%. This is about the middle for areas of its type.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals are much lower than in most other areas, sitting at 0.0%. This is far below the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 14.9% recorded in New South Wales.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Woy Woy Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14444/woy-woy-bay/topic/mobility-location