24.8% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kent · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Kent
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 24.8% of people in Kent moved home in the last five years, making it a very stable place to live. While few residents change their local address, the area welcomes a higher-than-average share of people moving here from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people have moved house recently compared to most areas. This figure is well below the Western Australian average of 39% and has fallen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.7% of the population, which is well above the state figure of 10.6%. However, this proportion has dropped from 21.7% in 2011.
15.7% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 15.7%
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 Kent [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA54480/kent/topic/mobility-location