17.0% ▼ -42.1%
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wilcannia · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Wilcannia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Wilcannia recently compared to other parts of the country. Only 17% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This makes the town one of the least mobile areas in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved home in the last five years is among the lowest for similar areas. This figure fell 12 percentage points since 2011 and sits far below the New South Wales average of 39.9%.
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 Wilcannia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121120/wilcannia/topic/mobility-location