39.7% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.0%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Albany · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Albany
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of Albany residents have moved house in the last five years, showing a town where many people are settling in. While the area attracts more new arrivals than most similar places, the number of people moving in from overseas has dropped sharply over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.7% of people moved here in the last five years, a rate higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the Western Australian figure, though the proportion of movers has fallen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.1% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the national figure of 14.5%. This represents a significant decline from 2011, when 15.3% of the community had arrived from abroad recently.
7.1% ▼ -53.3%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Albany [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL512001/albany/topic/mobility-location