42.7% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 69% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 50.3%
- 2016: 46.1%
- 2021: 42.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kalgoorlie - Boulder · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Kalgoorlie - Boulder
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 43% of people in Kalgoorlie - Boulder have moved house in the last five years, showing a highly mobile population. This movement is driven by both internal migration and a strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people have moved here recently than in most other areas, with 42.7% changing homes since 2016. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 39.0%, though this rate has fallen by 7.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.7% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 14.5%. However, this proportion has dropped significantly from 40.5% in 2011.
17.7% ▼ -56.3%
Higher than 74% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 40.5%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
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 Kalgoorlie - Boulder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5007/kalgoorlie-boulder/topic/mobility-location