24.4% ▼ -2.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dampier Peninsula · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Dampier Peninsula
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of people in Dampier Peninsula arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. While the area sees a high number of new arrivals from abroad, it is much less likely to see people moving between different Australian addresses.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 24.4% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is far below the 39% seen across Western Australia and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.3% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the state figure of 10.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
29.3% ▼ -29.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.4%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 29.3%
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 Dampier Peninsula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50380/dampier-peninsula/topic/mobility-location