39.9% —
Higher than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 44.9%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Goldfields · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Goldfields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into the Goldfields recently than in previous years. While 39.9% of residents arrived in the last five years, this is a 5.0 point drop since 2016. The region continues to attract a high number of overseas arrivals, though this has also fallen since the last census.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.9% of people moved house in the last five years, which is around the middle for similar areas. This figure is about the same as both the Western Australian and national rates.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 16.8% of the population, which is higher than most areas and well above the state figure of 10.6%. This is a decline from 2016, when the share of recent arrivals was 21.9%.
16.8% —
Higher than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
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 Goldfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/51103/goldfields/topic/mobility-location