37.6% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Nilgen · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Nilgen
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over a third of Nilgen residents have moved house in the last five years. While 37.6% of the population are relatively new arrivals, this movement is less common here than in most other parts of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.6% of people moved into the area in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is still a little below the Western Australia figure of 39.0% and well below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 5.6% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, but remains well below the figures for both Western Australia (10.6%) and Australia (14.5%).
5.6% ▼ -58.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Nilgen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51114/nilgen/topic/mobility-location