38.5% —
Lower than 57% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forrest · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Forrest
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Around the middle of similar areas for movement, Forrest has a stable population where 38.5% of people moved house in the last five years. The area has seen a significant drop in new arrivals from overseas over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.5% of residents moved in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This is about the same as the Western Australian average, though the figure fell 3.6 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 8.7% of people are recent arrivals from overseas, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This represents a sharp decline from 2011, when the proportion of recent overseas arrivals was 19.6%.
8.7% ▼ -55.9%
Lower than 81% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Forrest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED507/forrest/topic/mobility-location