41.7% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wavell Heights · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wavell Heights
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 40% of people in Wavell Heights have changed their address in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most similar places, though it remains slightly less active than the wider Queensland average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.7% of residents moved home in the last five years. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People who arrived from overseas recently make up 10.0% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas, but remains well below both the Queensland and national figures.
10.0% ▼ -55.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 10.0%
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 Wavell Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33015/wavell-heights/topic/mobility-location