34.8% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Carnarvon · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Carnarvon
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 16% of people in Carnarvon arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the state average. This makes the area more internationally diverse than most other regions in Western Australia. While many residents have moved from abroad, fewer people have moved between Australian addresses in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.8% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below both the state and national figures. This movement has also fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.4% of the population, which is higher than most areas. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6% and has remained steady since 2011.
16.4% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 Carnarvon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51540/carnarvon/topic/mobility-location