53.5% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 98% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 60.0%
- 2016: 60.2%
- 2021: 53.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ashburton · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Ashburton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Ashburton have moved house recently, making it one of the most mobile areas of its type. This high turnover is a standout feature for the region, with 53.5% of residents arriving within the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the population moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 39% seen in Western Australia. While this is among the highest rates for similar areas, the proportion has fallen by 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.7% of the population, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when 29.5% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
13.7% ▼ -53.6%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 13.7%
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 Ashburton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA50250/ashburton/topic/mobility-location