41.3% ▼ -13.3%
Higher than 58% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 47.7%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 41.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Busselton · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Busselton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Less than 10% of Busselton residents arrived from overseas recently, which is well below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country. While moving house is common here, the number of people arriving from abroad has fallen sharply over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.3% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure slightly above the state average and similar to the national rate. However, this is 6.4 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 7.0% of the population are recent arrivals from overseas, which is much lower than most other areas. This is well below the 14.5% national figure and represents a drop of 8.3 percentage points since 2011.
7.0% ▼ -54.4%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Busselton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5004/busselton/topic/mobility-location