29.4% ▼ -16.4%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cervantes · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Cervantes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Cervantes recently compared to most similar areas. Only 29.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 39%. This suggests a very stable population where most people stay put for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 29.4% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far below the national average of 40.7%. This movement rate has also fallen by 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.1% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. However, this is still a little below the state figure of 10.6% and has dipped slightly since 2011.
8.1% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Cervantes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522012/cervantes/topic/mobility-location