61.4% ▲ +480.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 61.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rottnest Island · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Rottnest Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge 61.4% of people on Rottnest Island have moved house in the last five years. This represents a massive increase from 2011, making the island's population far more mobile than the rest of Western Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Changing homes is very common here, with 61.4% of residents moving in the last five years. This is far above the 39% figure for Western Australia and has risen by 51 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 33.3% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has climbed steeply from just 2.5% in 2011.
33.3% ▲ +1222.2%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 Rottnest Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522057/rottnest-island/topic/mobility-location