42.5% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 49.3%
- 2016: 47.9%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shark Bay · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Shark Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher rates of movement than most similar areas define Shark Bay. Nearly 30% of the population arrived from overseas recently, while a large number of residents have changed their home address in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 39%. This is a little above the national average, though the proportion has fallen by 6.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 29.1% of the population, a figure that is far above both the state (10.6%) and national (14.5%) averages. This has risen sharply by 17 percentage points since 2011.
29.1% ▲ +140.4%
Higher than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 29.1%
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 Shark Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57770/shark-bay/topic/mobility-location