57.6% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 56.1%
- 2016: 61.1%
- 2021: 57.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Hedland · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Port Hedland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved here recently than in almost any other similar area, making Port Hedland a highly mobile community. Over half the population has changed addresses in the last five years, reflecting a transient workforce and a steady flow of new arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 57.6% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 39% seen across Western Australia. This level of movement has risen slightly since 2011 and is among the highest for areas of this type.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.4% of the population, which is well above the state figure of 10.6%. While this remains higher than most areas, the proportion of new overseas arrivals has fallen 14 points since 2011.
17.4% ▼ -44.7%
Higher than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 17.4%
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 Port Hedland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5010/port-hedland/topic/mobility-location