22.8% ▼ -52.1%
Lower than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 47.6%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Magnet · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Mount Magnet
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into and out of Mount Magnet than in most other areas. Only 22.8% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This reflects a community where people are staying put more than they used to.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is rare here, with the share of people who changed homes in the last five years falling 25 points since 2011. At 22.8%, this is among the lowest rates for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when the share was 30.3%.
9.8% ▼ -67.8%
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 9.8%
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 Mount Magnet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA55810/mount-magnet/topic/mobility-location