32.4% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Yilgarn · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Yilgarn
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Few people are moving into Yilgarn these days, creating a very stable local population. Only 32.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people have moved here recently compared to most other areas. This figure has fallen by 9.4 percentage points since 2011, leaving the local rate well below the 39% seen across Western Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
About 13.6% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is similar to the Australian average. However, this represents a big drop from 2011, when 31.8% of the community were recent arrivals.
13.6% ▼ -57.4%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 13.6%
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 Yilgarn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59360/yilgarn/topic/mobility-location