29.6% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Williamstown · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into or from overseas in Williamstown compared to the rest of the country. Only 29.6% of residents arrived in the area in the last five years, showing a much more stable population than the national average.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 29.6% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well below the South Australian figure of 36.9% and far below the national rate of 40.7%.
29.6% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very low in Williamstown, with recent arrivals making up just 0.7% of the population. This is far below both the state and national figures, which both sit around 14% to 15%.
0.7% ▼ -86.6%
Lower than 76% 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 Williamstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41602/williamstown/topic/mobility-location