31.8% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Coolgardie · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Coolgardie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A growing number of overseas arrivals has changed the makeup of Coolgardie (L), where 13% of people arrived from abroad recently. While more people are moving in from other countries, the town is seeing fewer residents move in from within Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.8% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 39%. This movement has fallen by 4.8 percentage points since 2011, leaving the area with a lower rate of moving than most other similar places.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 13% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This is a little above the Western Australian average of 10.6% and represents a sharp increase of 11 percentage points since 2011.
13.0% ▲ +452.2%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 Coolgardie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521014/coolgardie/topic/mobility-location