53.5% ▲ +23.1%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.4%
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 53.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Roebourne · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Roebourne
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A dramatic shift in movement has occurred in Roebourne since 2011, with a surge in people moving in and a total disappearance of new overseas arrivals. Now, over half the population has changed in the last five years, marking a highly mobile community.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of residents—53.5%—have moved here in the last five years, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This rate of movement has risen by 10 points since 2011, making it one of the highest for areas of this size.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
There were no recent arrivals from overseas in 2021, a far below result compared to 14.5% across Australia. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 24.2% of the population had arrived from abroad recently.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Roebourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521046/roebourne/topic/mobility-location