43.5% —
Higher than 72% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 47.7%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kalgoorlie · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Kalgoorlie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five residents in Kalgoorlie arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the Western Australian average. This high level of international migration contributes to a very mobile population, where many people have changed homes in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well above the state figure of 39.0%. This rate is higher than in most other similar areas, although it has fallen by 4.2 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.7% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 7.2 percentage points since 2016.
19.7% —
Higher than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 19.7%
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 Kalgoorlie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/511031279/kalgoorlie/topic/mobility-location