31.6% ▼ -15.2%
Lower than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Northam · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Northam
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into or arriving from abroad in Northam compared to other parts of the country. This stability is seen in the fact that only 4.7% of residents arrived from overseas recently, a figure that has dropped sharply over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People are less likely to move here than in other areas, with 31.6% changing homes in the last five years. This is well below the national figure of 40.7% and has fallen by 5.7 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up just 4.7% of the population, which is much lower than most areas. This is well below the 14.5% national figure and represents a 9.0 point drop since 2011.
4.7% ▼ -65.7%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 Northam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA56730/northam/topic/mobility-location