41.7% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 49.6%
- 2016: 46.1%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wyndham-East Kimberley · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Wyndham-East Kimberley
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
High rates of movement define life in Wyndham-East Kimberley, where nearly 42% of residents have arrived in the last five years. This creates a very mobile population, though the number of people moving into the area has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.7% of people moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas and slightly above the Western Australian figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 22.9% of the population, a figure that is far above the state average and well above the national average.
22.9% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 22.9%
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 Wyndham-East Kimberley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59340/wyndham-east-kimberley/topic/mobility-location