36.3% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 45.1%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Murray · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Murray
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in new arrivals has changed the face of Murray since 2011. Far fewer people are moving into the area now, and the number of people arriving from overseas has plummeted over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 39.0%. This is a fall of 8.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 2.0% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is far below the national figure of 14.5%. This represents a huge drop from 2011, when the share of recent overseas arrivals was 27.9%.
2.0% ▼ -92.8%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Murray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/509031248/murray/topic/mobility-location