36.3% ▼ -15.4%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 42.9%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Harvey · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Harvey
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of residents in Harvey have moved house in the last five years. While this is the most common movement trend, the area has seen a steady drop in both local and overseas arrivals over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.3% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This represents a 6.6 percentage point fall since 2011, when 42.9% of the population had recently moved.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.7% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian average. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and shows a sharp 11 percentage point drop since 2011.
9.7% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 9.7%
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 Harvey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA53990/harvey/topic/mobility-location