41.5% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wallsend · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Wallsend
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved to Wallsend recently than in most similar areas. Over 41% of the population have changed their home in the last five years, and the area sees a much higher proportion of new arrivals from overseas than the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.5% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is a little above the New South Wales figure. This is 4.3 percentage points higher than it was in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 21.8% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
21.8% ▼ -14.0%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 21.8%
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 Wallsend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10089/wallsend/topic/mobility-location