38.5% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 47.4%
- 2016: 47.3%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rockingham · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Rockingham
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into Rockingham than in previous years, making it a more stable place to live. While 38.5% of residents arrived in the last five years, the number of new overseas arrivals has dropped sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.5% of people moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is roughly the same as the Western Australia figure, though it is a little below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 5.7% of the population arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This represents a steep decline from 2011, when 22.4% of residents were recent arrivals.
5.7% ▼ -74.4%
Lower than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Rockingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57490/rockingham/topic/mobility-location