49.7% ▲ +21.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 58.6%
- 2021: 49.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Golden Bay · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Golden Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Golden Bay have moved house in the last five years, making it one of the most mobile areas for its size. This high turnover suggests a very fluid population, though the growth is driven more by people moving within Australia than from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.7% of people here changed homes in the last five years, a figure that is far above the Western Australian rate of 39.0% and well above the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are much less common here, with only 5.5% of the population arriving recently from another country. This is well below the figures for both Western Australia (10.6%) and Australia (14.5%).
5.5% ▼ -71.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Golden Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50566/golden-bay/topic/mobility-location