38.0% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bridgetown-Greenbushes · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Bridgetown-Greenbushes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far lower share of people move here from overseas than in other parts of the country, making Bridgetown-Greenbushes a place where very few new arrivals come from abroad. While 38% of residents changed homes in the last five years, the number of recent overseas arrivals has fallen significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38% of the population moved house in the last five years, a figure slightly lower than the national average of 40.7%. This is higher than most similar areas, and the proportion of people moving has risen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 2.4% of residents arrived from overseas recently, which is far below the 14.5% national figure. This is among the lowest rates for this level of area and has fallen from 5.5% in 2011.
2.4% ▼ -56.3%
Lower than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Bridgetown-Greenbushes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA50840/bridgetown-greenbushes/topic/mobility-location