25.6% ▼ -22.0%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Northampton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Northampton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Northampton recently compared to most similar areas. Only 25.6% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests the town has a very stable population with few newcomers.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 25.6% of people moved here in the last five years. This is far below the 39.0% seen across Western Australia and 40.7% for Australia as a whole.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.5% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it remains well below the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
6.5% ▼ -56.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.5%
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 Northampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51158/northampton/topic/mobility-location