47.6% ▲ +49.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 47.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wellington East · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Wellington East have moved house in the last five years. This high level of mobility makes the area far more transient than most other similar places across the region.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.6% of people moved recently, a figure that is far above the South Australian average of 36.9% and well above the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement is much higher than in most other areas.
47.6% ▲ +49.0%
Higher than 89% 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 6.0% of the population. This is well below the figures for both Australia (14.5%) and South Australia (15.1%).
6.0% ▲ —
Lower than 53% 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 Wellington East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41562/wellington-east/topic/mobility-location