47.9% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.5%
- 2016: 52.0%
- 2021: 47.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kalgoorlie · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Kalgoorlie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A striking 25.1% of Kalgoorlie residents arrived from overseas recently, placing the area among the highest for new arrivals. This makes Kalgoorlie a highly mobile community where many people have moved into the area recently, both from within Australia and from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly half of all residents, 47.9%, moved here in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and the Western Australian average of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 25.1% of the population, which is far above the 10.6% seen across Western Australia and the national figure of 14.5%.
25.1% ▼ -49.7%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.8%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 25.1%
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 Kalgoorlie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50712/kalgoorlie/topic/mobility-location