26.4% ▼ -24.6%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wagin · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Wagin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Wagin recently, though the number of overseas arrivals has climbed. Only 26.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is a sharp drop from 35% in 2011. This makes the town much more stable than most other areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 26.4% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far below the Western Australia rate of 39.0% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is much lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.7% of the population, which is a little above the Western Australia figure of 10.6%. This proportion has grown steadily, rising from 7.0% in 2011.
12.7% ▲ +81.9%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Wagin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58610/wagin/topic/mobility-location