39.4% ▲ +17.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Waverley · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Mount Waverley have changed their address in the last five years. This makes it a highly mobile area compared to most other places, with a significant number of residents arriving from both within Australia and from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.4% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This rate is about the same as the Victorian figure of 40.0% and a little below the national figure of 40.7%.
39.4% ▲ +17.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 15.8% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most areas. This is a little above the national average of 14.5% and about the same as the state figure.
15.8% ▼ -25.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Mount Waverley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21816/mount-waverley/topic/mobility-location