26.4% ▼ -26.3%
Lower than 80% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
6490, WA · Postcode
Migration & Movement in 6490, WA
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Zero recent arrivals from overseas make postcode 6490 an area with very little new international migration. Residents here are much more likely to stay put than people in other parts of the country, with far fewer people moving house recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 26.4% of people moved in the last five years, a figure far below the national average of 40.7%. This stability is a growing trend, as the proportion of people moving fell by 9.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No one in the area arrived from overseas recently, which is much lower than the 10.6% seen across Western Australia. This figure has barely changed since 2016.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 6490, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6490/6490-wa/topic/mobility-location