31.6% ▼ -6.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Augusta West · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Port Augusta West
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly a quarter of people in Port Augusta West arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area stand out for its high proportion of new international arrivals, even though fewer residents have moved between Australian homes lately.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 31.6% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is well below the figures for South Australia and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.7% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas and far above the national figure of 14.5%.
24.7% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 Port Augusta West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41190/port-augusta-west/topic/mobility-location