35.4% ▼ -38.5%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 57.5%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Northam · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Northam
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have recently moved here from overseas than in most similar areas, though Northam has seen a sharp drop in these arrivals since 2011. The community is now more stable, with a lower proportion of residents moving house compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.4% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This represents a significant shift in the area, as the share of people moving fell by 22 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.6% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This number has fallen steeply from 35.2% in 2011.
7.6% ▼ -78.4%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 7.6%
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 Northam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL514004/northam/topic/mobility-location