34.3% ▼ -23.1%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Carnarvon · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Carnarvon
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Carnarvon recently compared to the rest of the country. While 12.6% of the population arrived from overseas lately, the number of residents who shifted house in the last five years is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.3% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well below the 40.7% national average. This is a notable drop for the area, as the figure fell 10 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.6% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This proportion has remained steady since 2011 and is a little above the Western Australian average of 10.6%.
12.6% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 12.6%
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 Carnarvon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515006/carnarvon/topic/mobility-location