43.7% ▼ -9.4%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 48.2%
- 2016: 47.8%
- 2021: 43.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Broome · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Broome
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher rates of movement than most similar areas define Broome, where nearly 20% of people arrived from overseas recently. This is a highly mobile population that sees more frequent arrivals and departures than the typical Australian town.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 43.7% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure well above the national average. While this is still much higher than most areas, the proportion of people moving in has fallen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.6% of the population, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%. This level of international migration is much higher than in most other similar areas, though it has fallen since 2011.
19.6% ▼ -30.1%
Higher than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 19.6%
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 Broome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA50980/broome/topic/mobility-location