39.4% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cambridge · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Cambridge
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Cambridge recently than in most similar areas. About 39.4% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, a figure that is slightly lower than the national average but reflects a steady rise since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 39.4% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Western Australian figure of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.1% of the population, which is a little above the state average but lower than the national figure. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 22.7% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
12.1% ▼ -46.7%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Cambridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51310/cambridge/topic/mobility-location