34.5% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 48.1%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coolgardie · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Coolgardie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Coolgardie recently compared to the rest of the state. Only 34.5% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This trend is part of a wider decline in movement into the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved here in the last five years fell by 14 percentage points since 2011. At 34.5%, this figure is well below both the Western Australian and national averages.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.7% of the population, which is lower than most areas. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 34.6% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
8.7% ▼ -75.0%
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Coolgardie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51960/coolgardie/topic/mobility-location