60.3% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 53.9%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 60.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tom Price · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Tom Price
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 60% of people in Tom Price have moved here in the last five years. This high rate of churn makes the area far more mobile than the rest of the state and the nation. Recent overseas arrivals also make up a significant part of the community.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years has risen to 60.3%, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.2% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is a little above the Western Australia figure, though it has fallen by 7.5 points since 2011.
13.2% ▼ -36.2%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Tom Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515033/tom-price/topic/mobility-location