48.1% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.0%
- 2016: 50.4%
- 2021: 48.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wilson · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wilson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Wilson have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by a strong flow of new arrivals, with people moving into the area at rates well above the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.1% of people here moved in the last five years, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is well above the 39% seen across Western Australia and 40.7% for the whole country.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area sees a very high number of new arrivals from overseas, making up 22.2% of the population. This is far above the state figure of 10.6% and well above the national average of 14.5%.
22.2% ▼ -40.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 22.2%
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 Wilson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51617/wilson/topic/mobility-location