47.0% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.5%
- 2016: 48.7%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Exmouth · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Exmouth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Exmouth moved here in the last five years, a rate far higher than the national figure. This high level of churn reflects a mobile population, with a particularly strong share of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47% of people have changed their home in the last five years, which is well above the 39% seen across Western Australia. This figure has risen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 26.4% of the population, far above the 14.5% national average. While this remains among the highest rates for similar areas, it has fallen by 20 percentage points since 2011.
26.4% ▼ -43.7%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 46.9%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 26.4%
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 Exmouth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515013/exmouth/topic/mobility-location