45.3% —
Higher than 76% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 42.8%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Swan · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Swan
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A significant drop in overseas arrivals has shaped the movement patterns in Swan since 2011. While the share of recent migrants fell by 16 percentage points, the area remains very mobile, with 45.3% of residents having moved house in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly half of the people in Swan have moved home in the last five years. This figure is well above both the state (39.0%) and national (40.7%) rates, and has risen by 2.5 points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.0% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%.
18.0% ▼ -47.1%
Higher than 75% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 18.0%
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 Swan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED514/swan/topic/mobility-location