55.1% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 59.7%
- 2016: 64.2%
- 2021: 55.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Karratha · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Karratha
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Karratha moved here in the last five years. This makes it one of the most mobile areas in the region, where a huge proportion of the population are newcomers.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 55.1% of residents have moved home recently, a figure far above the 40.7% national average. While this is among the highest rates for similar areas, the proportion fell 4.6 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.2% of the population, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when 35.4% of people had arrived from abroad recently.
15.2% ▼ -57.1%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 15.2%
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).
More for Karratha
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Karratha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL513003/karratha/topic/mobility-location