38.2% ▼ -5.6%
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Albany · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Albany
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Just 6.7% of people in Albany arrived from overseas recently, which is well below the national figure. The area sees a fair amount of movement, with nearly four in ten residents having changed homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.2% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that is higher than most similar areas. This is roughly the same as the Western Australia average, though the proportion of movers has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.7% of the population, which is well below both the state and national figures. This number has fallen significantly since 2011, when 13.2% of the community had arrived from abroad recently.
6.7% ▼ -48.9%
Lower than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Albany [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA50080/albany/topic/mobility-location