31.1% ▼ -48.6%
Lower than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 60.6%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wiluna · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Wiluna
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 10 percentage points fewer people have moved into Wiluna recently compared to the national figure. This shift is part of a larger trend where the local population has become much more stable over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.1% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the state and national figures. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 60.6% of the community had moved into the area.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.0% of the population, which is a little above the Western Australian average. This is down significantly from 2011, when one in four residents had arrived from overseas recently.
12.0% ▼ -52.7%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 12.0%
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 Wiluna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59250/wiluna/topic/mobility-location