31.6% ▼ -15.2%
Lower than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Northam · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Northam
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 31.6% of people in Northam have moved home in the last five years, which is a much lower rate than most other areas. This suggests a very stable population where residents tend to stay put, as both local moving and overseas arrivals have declined since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people are moving into Northam compared to the rest of the state, with 31.6% changing homes recently. This figure is well below the Western Australian rate of 39.0% and has fallen by 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up only 4.7% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when the share of recent overseas arrivals was 13.7%.
4.7% ▼ -65.7%
Lower than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 Northam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/509021243/northam/topic/mobility-location