40.7% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 76% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 47.5%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
6640, WA · Postcode
Migration & Movement in 6640, WA
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in overseas arrivals has changed the movement patterns in postcode 6640 since 2011. While 40.7% of the population moved house in the last five years, the area now has no recent arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.7% of people moved in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas and slightly above the Western Australian figure. This is 6.7 percentage points lower than the 47.5% who had moved back in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Zero people arrived from overseas recently, a figure far below the national average of 14.5%. This is a significant shift from 2011, when 14.6% of the population were recent overseas arrivals.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 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 6640, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6640/6640-wa/topic/mobility-location