36.0% ▲ +24.1%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Leonora · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Leonora
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have arrived from overseas in Leonora than in most similar areas. While 15.8% of the population are recent arrivals, the town has seen a steady increase in people moving here over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This rate has risen by 7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.8% of the population, a figure well above the Western Australian average of 10.6%. This proportion has grown by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
15.8% ▲ +48.9%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 15.8%
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 Leonora [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521031/leonora/topic/mobility-location