26.9% ▼ -25.3%
Lower than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Northampton · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Northampton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Northampton recently, with only 26.9% of residents arriving in the last five years. This is much lower than most other areas and reflects a settled population that is less mobile than the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 26.9% of people moved home in the last five years, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 39.0%. This movement has fallen by 9.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 4.3% of the population, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 6.6 percentage points since 2011.
4.3% ▼ -60.8%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Northampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA56790/northampton/topic/mobility-location