39.2% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wollongong · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Wollongong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Wollongong sits around the middle of similar areas for how often people move in and out. About 39.2% of residents have changed their home in the last five years, a figure that aligns closely with the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 40% of the population moved house in the last five years, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure. This represents a rise of 2.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.7% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure. This is lower than it was in 2011, when the proportion was 18.3%.
13.7% ▼ -24.9%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 13.7%
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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10092/wollongong/topic/mobility-location