30.3% ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Derby-West Kimberley · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Derby-West Kimberley
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap exists between Derby-West Kimberley and the rest of the country in how people move. While far fewer residents have changed homes recently, the area has seen a massive surge in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 30.3% of people moved in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This is lower than most other areas, though the share of movers rose slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 23.4% of the population, a figure far above the Western Australian average of 10.6%. This represents a sharp increase from 2011, when only 8.9% of residents had recently arrived from abroad.
23.4% ▲ +164.0%
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 23.4%
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 Derby-West Kimberley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA52800/derby-west-kimberley/topic/mobility-location