52.0% ▼ -29.0%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 73.3%
- 2016: 62.4%
- 2021: 52.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Waterford · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Waterford
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Waterford recently than in most similar areas. Over half of the population shifted home in the last five years, making it a highly mobile community compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 52% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well above the Queensland rate of 44.8% and far above the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.8% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
9.8% ▼ -52.3%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 9.8%
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 Waterford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33004/waterford/topic/mobility-location