36.2% ▼ -14.1%
Lower than 65% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 42.2%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bunbury · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Bunbury
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into or arrived from overseas in Bunbury than in most similar areas. The region has seen a notable decline in mobility, with a smaller proportion of the population changing homes or arriving from abroad compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.2% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 40.7%. This reflects a downward trend, as the share of people moving fell by 6.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.9% of the population, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when 21.5% of the community had arrived from abroad recently.
8.9% ▼ -58.5%
Lower than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
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 Bunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50102/bunbury/topic/mobility-location