53.4% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.6%
- 2016: 50.8%
- 2021: 53.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Watson · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Watson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Watson have moved house recently, making it a very transient place to live. This high turnover is driven by both internal moves and a strong flow of people arriving from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 53.4% of people moved here in the last five years. This is well above the ACT figure of 46.1% and far above the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International arrivals also shape the area, with 18.8% of people arriving from overseas recently. This is much higher than most areas and sits a little above the ACT rate of 16.7%.
18.8% ▼ -18.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 18.8%
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 Watson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80131/watson/topic/mobility-location