41.0% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Esperance · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Esperance
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have shifted into Esperance over the last decade than in many other similar areas. It is now a high-turnover place where 41% of residents moved here in the last five years, reflecting a significant influx of new arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41% of the population moved to the area in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits a little above the Western Australian figure of 39%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.6% of the population, which is well above the state figure of 10.6%. This rate is also a little above the national average and is much higher than in most other similar areas.
15.6% ▼ -40.0%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 15.6%
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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50492/esperance/topic/mobility-location