34.5% ▼ -12.6%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 39.5%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Esperance · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Esperance
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A falling number of new arrivals defines the movement patterns in Esperance. While 34.5% of people moved here in the last five years, this is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This trend shows a steady decline in both local and overseas migration over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.5% of the community moved house in the last five years, which is well below the 39.0% seen across Western Australia. This figure has fallen by 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.2% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the state average but well below the national level of 14.5%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when the share of recent arrivals was 19.3%.
11.2% ▼ -41.9%
Lower than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA53290/esperance/topic/mobility-location