40.4% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Waterford West · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Waterford West
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Forty percent of people in Waterford West have changed homes in the last five years. This high turnover rate shows a very mobile population, with a significant number of residents moving in and out of the area recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.4% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure much higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the national average, though it sits well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.1% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. This proportion is a little below the Australian figure of 14.5% and about the same as the Queensland average.
13.1% ▼ -30.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.1%
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 West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33005/waterford-west/topic/mobility-location