43.3% ▼ -5.8%
Higher than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 46.0%
- 2016: 48.4%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Margaret River · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Margaret River
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 43% of people in Margaret River have moved house in the last five years. This level of mobility is higher than in most other similar areas, making it a place where residents change more frequently than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Forty-three per cent of the population moved here within the last five years, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 39%. While this is higher than most areas, the proportion of recent movers has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.2% of the population, which is about the same as the state average but well below the national figure. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when 22.3% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
11.2% ▼ -49.9%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Margaret River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/501011004/margaret-river/topic/mobility-location