41.6% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 40.7%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wagga Wagga · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Wagga Wagga
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Wagga Wagga since 2011, including a very high number of new arrivals from overseas. Over a quarter of the population now arrived from another country recently, making the area much more diverse than the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.6% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is a little above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 25.3% of the population, a figure far above the national average of 14.5%. This proportion is among the highest for similar areas and rose slightly over the last decade.
25.3% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 25.3%
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 Wagga Wagga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10087/wagga-wagga/topic/mobility-location