63.5% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.2%
- 2016: 65.8%
- 2021: 63.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Hedland · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Port Hedland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved to Port Hedland recently than in most similar areas. A striking 63.5% of residents arrived within the last five years, making it a highly mobile community with a significant number of new arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving house is very common here, with 63.5% of people arriving in the last five years. This is far above the 39% seen in Western Australia and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.1% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above both the state figure of 10.6% and the own national average of 14.5%.
19.1% ▼ -37.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 19.1%
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 Port Hedland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51259/port-hedland/topic/mobility-location