38.2% ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Albany (South West) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Albany (South West)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Around the middle for its level of movement compared to similar areas, Albany (South West) sees a fair amount of people changing homes. While 38.2% of residents moved in the last five years, the area has seen a sharp drop in the number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.2% of people moved house in the last five years, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure of 39.0%. This is a little below the national figure of 40.7%, and the rate has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.7% of the population, which is much lower than most areas. This is well below both the state (10.6%) and national (14.5%) figures, and has fallen by 6.4 percentage points since 2011.
6.7% ▼ -48.7%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Albany (South West) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED50106/albany/topic/mobility-location