25.1% ▲ +12.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Waldara · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A stark gap exists between those who stay and those who arrive in Waldara, where overseas arrivals are much more common than the national average. While 19% of residents moved here from abroad recently, the area is otherwise very stable, with far fewer people moving house overall than in most other parts of the country.
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 25.1% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is far below the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia, making it a place where people tend to stay put longer than in most other areas.
25.1% ▲ +12.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 19% of the population. This is well above the figures for both Victoria (15.6%) and Australia (14.5%), and is much higher than in most similar areas.
19.0% ▲ +204.8%
Higher than 86% 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 Waldara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22650/waldara/topic/mobility-location