50.9% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 50.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Onslow · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Onslow
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Onslow have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes the town's population much more mobile than the rest of Western Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.9% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 39% seen across Western Australia. This level of movement is among the highest for similar areas and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.5% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. While this remains much higher than most areas, the proportion of new arrivals fell by 12 points since 2011.
17.5% ▼ -40.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 17.5%
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 Onslow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521040/onslow/topic/mobility-location