47.8% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 88% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 51.1%
- 2016: 62.2%
- 2021: 47.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
6170, WA · Postcode
Migration & Movement in 6170, WA
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Overseas arrivals have dropped sharply since 2011 in postcode 6170, though it remains a mobile area. Nearly half of all residents have changed their address in the last five years, making it much more likely for people to move here than in most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.8% of people moved house in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This is much higher than most areas, though the proportion fell slightly by 3.3 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.9% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian average. This represents a large drop from 2011, when 26.8% of residents had recently arrived from abroad.
10.9% ▼ -59.5%
Higher than 61% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 6170, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6170/6170-wa/topic/mobility-location