45.0% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Willoughby · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Willoughby
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Willoughby have changed their address in the last five years. This high level of movement marks the area as much more mobile than most other parts of the country. While many people are moving in and out, the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45% of people have moved home since 2016, a figure that is well above the national average of 40.7%. This level of movement is much higher than in most other areas and has remained steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.6% of the population, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This is higher than most areas, although the proportion fell by 4.9 percentage points since 2011.
16.6% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 16.6%
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 Willoughby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10090/willoughby/topic/mobility-location