28.6% ▼ -21.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wagin · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wagin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Wagin in recent years compared to the rest of the country. While 12.7% of residents arrived from overseas recently, the overall movement into the area remains quite low.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.6% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7% and the state's 39.0%. This rate is around the middle for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.7% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas and a little above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%, though it sits a little below the Australian average of 14.5%.
12.7% ▲ +48.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Wagin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51501/wagin/topic/mobility-location