35.2% ▼ -38.0%
Lower than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 56.8%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Esperance · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Esperance
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Thirty-five per cent of people in Esperance have moved house in the last five years, which is much lower than in most other areas. This trend shows a significant shift toward more stable residency, as the number of people moving in and out has fallen steeply over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of residents who moved in the last five years fell by 22 points since 2011 to reach 35.2%. This is well below the national figure of 40.7% and the state average of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.7% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the state average but well below the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 22.4% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
9.7% ▼ -56.7%
Lower than 71% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 9.7%
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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5005/esperance/topic/mobility-location