39.9% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Augusta · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Augusta
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved here from overseas than in other parts of the country, making Augusta a place where international migration is well below the national figure. While 6.9% of residents recently arrived from abroad, about 40% of the population has moved house within the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.9% of people moved home in the last five years, which is about the same as the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country. This figure has risen by 4.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.9% of the population, which is well below the 10.6% seen across Western Australia and the 14.5% national average. This proportion has fallen since 2011, when it was 9.3%.
6.9% ▼ -25.8%
Lower than 72% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Augusta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/501011001/augusta/topic/mobility-location