36.6% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 45.6%
- 2016: 42.2%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Moonta · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Moonta
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A settled population defines Moonta, where few people are new to the area. Only 4.6% of residents arrived from overseas recently, and the number of people moving into the town has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.6% of people moved here in the last five years, which is about the same as the South Australian figure. This is well below the national rate, and the proportion of people moving into the area has fallen by 8.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 4.6% of the population, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages. This reflects a downward trend from 2011, when the share of recent overseas arrivals was 10.9%.
4.6% ▼ -58.2%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 Moonta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415030/moonta/topic/mobility-location