33.5% ▼ -15.5%
Lower than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Not in any Significant Urban Area · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Not in any Significant Urban Area
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into Not in any Significant Urban Area (WA) than in most other parts of the country. Only 33.5% of residents have moved home in the last five years, showing a trend toward a more settled population compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 33.5%, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and the national rate of 40.7%. This figure has fallen by 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.5% of the population, which is about the same as the state average but well below the national figure of 14.5%. This has dropped significantly from 17.4% in 2011.
10.5% ▼ -40.0%
Lower than 66% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/mobility-location