45.1% ▲ +22.4%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2021: 45.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wollongbar · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Wollongbar
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have changed addresses recently in Wollongbar than in most other similar areas. Nearly half of all residents—45.1%—moved here in the last five years. This movement is underpinned by a rise in people arriving from overseas, which has grown from nothing in 2011 to 10% of the population.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 45.1% of people moved to Wollongbar in the last five years, a figure well above the 40.7% national average. This trend has climbed steadily, rising 8.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. While this is well below the national figure of 14.5%, it represents a significant increase from 0% in 2011.
10.0% ▲ —
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.0%
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 Wollongbar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115162/wollongbar/topic/mobility-location