36.4% —
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wollongong · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Wollongong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 36.4% of people in Wollongong have moved house in the last five years. This reflects a population that is more settled than the state or national average, though the number of people shifting homes has risen slightly since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While the share of people who moved in the last five years rose slightly to 36.4%, this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.9% of the population, which is higher than most areas, but well below the 14.5% seen across Australia. This proportion fell by 4.3 percentage points since 2016.
9.9% —
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 9.9%
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/ucl/UCL102005/wollongong/topic/mobility-location