36.3% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 47.0%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wellington · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Wellington
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of residents in Wellington arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. This influx of new arrivals has seen the area's overseas population grow significantly since 2011, making it one of the highest for its size.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 36.3% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen slightly by 3.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 29.8% of the population, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This is a major shift for the area, as the proportion rose 30 percentage points since 2011.
29.8% ▲ —
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 29.8%
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 Wellington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115155/wellington/topic/mobility-location