31.0% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Whyalla · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Whyalla
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer than one in ten people in Whyalla have recently arrived from overseas, reflecting a community where most residents are long-term locals. While migration patterns are modest, the area sees less movement both internally and from abroad compared to wider trends.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 31% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7% and the South Australian rate of 36.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.4% of the population, a figure that is well below both the state (15.1%) and national (14.5%) averages.
8.4% ▼ -29.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
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 Whyalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41585/whyalla/topic/mobility-location