23.5% ▼ -62.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.5%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Waterways · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Waterways
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 23.5% of people in Waterways moved house in the last five years, which is far below the national figure. This means the area has a very stable population where most residents have lived for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
At 23.5%, the proportion of people who moved recently is much lower than in most other areas. This is far below the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.5% of the population, placing the area around the middle for its level. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and far below Victoria's 15.6%.
5.5% ▼ -60.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Waterways [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22720/waterways/topic/mobility-location