33.5% ▼ -31.7%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.1%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Harvey · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Harvey
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people arrive from overseas in Harvey than in the typical Western Australian town. While 24.7% of residents are recent overseas arrivals, the area has seen fewer people moving house locally, with the share of those who shifted homes in the last five years falling since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 33.5% of residents have moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when 49.1% of the population had changed addresses.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.7% of the population, a figure far above the Western Australian average of 10.6%. This proportion has risen by 7.3 points since 2011.
24.7% ▲ +41.8%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 Harvey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515015/harvey/topic/mobility-location