33.3% ▼ -15.5%
Lower than 51% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
6271, WA · Postcode
Migration & Movement in 6271, WA
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About a third of people in postcode 6271 have moved home in the last five years. This makes the area less mobile than much of the country, with very few new arrivals from overseas joining the local population.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Roughly 33.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a downward trend for the area, as the share of people moving has fallen 6.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 3.3% of people are recent arrivals from overseas, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 14.5%. This represents a significant drop from 2011, when the proportion was 8.8%.
3.3% ▼ -62.9%
Lower than 76% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 6271, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6271/6271-wa/topic/mobility-location