40.7% —
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 50.1%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
North West Central (Mining and Pastoral) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in North West Central (Mining and Pastoral)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved here from overseas than in most other similar areas, with 16.6% of the population arriving recently. North West Central (Mining and Pastoral) sees a steady mix of new arrivals and people moving between homes, though the number of people shifting house has dropped since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.7% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is about the same as the national figure. This is a little above the Western Australian rate, but it is a fall of 9.4 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 16.6% of the population, which is well above the 10.6% seen across Western Australia. This is higher than most other areas, though the figure fell slightly from 19.5% in 2016.
16.6% —
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 16.6%
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 North West Central (Mining and Pastoral) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED54203/north-west-central/topic/mobility-location