47.3% —
Higher than 84% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 45.7%
- 2021: 47.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Perth · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Perth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Perth have changed their address in the last five years. This high level of movement makes the area much more mobile than most other parts of the country. It is a dynamic place where almost 47.3% of people have moved recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.3% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This movement has risen slightly since 2016, meaning more people are shifting into the area than in most other places.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 17.5% of the population, a figure well above the 10.6% seen across Western Australia. While this is still higher than most areas, the proportion of recent arrivals fell by 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
17.5% ▼ -22.3%
Higher than 74% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED513/perth/topic/mobility-location