46.1% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 51.8%
- 2016: 51.2%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Broome · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Broome
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people move into Broome than in other parts of the state, with nearly half the population arriving in the last five years. This high turnover is seen both in people moving from other towns and the 19.2% who recently arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.1% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. While this is much higher than most areas, the proportion of new arrivals has fallen by 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are much more common here than elsewhere, with 19.2% of people arriving from abroad recently. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%, though the share of recent arrivals has fallen by 8.6 percentage points since 2011.
19.2% ▼ -31.0%
Higher than 79% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 19.2%
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 Broome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5002/broome/topic/mobility-location