57.6% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 69.1%
- 2021: 57.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Whitby · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Whitby
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Whitby recently than in most similar areas. Over half the population has changed addresses in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile community where 57.6% of residents are relatively new arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 57.6% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 39% seen in Western Australia and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are less common here, with 4.8% of residents arriving from another country recently. This is well below both the state figure of 10.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
4.8% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Whitby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51592/whitby/topic/mobility-location