29.4% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 92% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wheat Belt - South · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Wheat Belt - South
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 29.4% of people in Wheat Belt - South have moved home in the last five years, one of the lowest rates for any similar area. This suggests a very stable population where few residents change their address. The number of people moving into the region has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people move here than in most other areas, with the 29.4% figure being far below the national average of 40.7%. This movement rate is also well below Western Australia's 39.0% and has dropped 6.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.5% of the population, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure. This is well below the Australian average of 14.5%, and the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has fallen by 8.5 percentage points since 2011.
10.5% ▼ -44.9%
Lower than 62% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Wheat Belt - South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50903/wheat-belt-south/topic/mobility-location