35.8% ▼ 0.0%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Meekatharra · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Meekatharra
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Meekatharra arrived from overseas recently, a figure that has jumped 40 percentage points since 2011. This makes the town stand out for its high level of recent international arrivals. In contrast, the proportion of people moving house from within Australia is much lower than the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.8% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This rate has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 52.2% of the population, which is far above the 10.6% seen across Western Australia. This is among the highest proportions for areas of this type.
52.2% ▲ +334.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 52.2%
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 Meekatharra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521032/meekatharra/topic/mobility-location