Components of population change
The greatest population change for Wyong Shire is forecast for the period from 2022 to 2026, which is expected to have a net increase of 14,576 people.
There are two ways in which populations can change, through net migration and/or through natural increase (births minus deaths). Some areas are more driven by one or other of these factors. Migration is largely driven by housing development, whereas natural increase is a function of the age of the population.
|Components of population change|
|Wyong Shire||Forecast period|
|Component||2012 to 2016||2017 to 2021||2022 to 2026||2027 to 2031||2032 to 2036|
|Change in persons in non-private dwellings||106||285||135||315||315||0|
|Total population change||6,304||13,244||14,577||13,944||13,151|
Population and household forecasts, 2011 to 2036, prepared by .id (opens a new window), the population experts, March 2015.