57.6% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre 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 Centre
Migration & Movement in Port Hedland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge churn of people defines daily life in Port Hedland, where more than half of all residents have moved here recently. It is a highly transient place, with 57.6% of people arriving within the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Port Hedland has one of the highest rates of movement in the country. At 57.6%, the share of people who moved here in the last five years is far above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.4% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%. However, this share has fallen by 14 points since 2011.
17.4% ▼ -44.6%
Higher than 85% of urban centre 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/ucl/UCL513004/port-hedland/topic/mobility-location