35.7% ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Beach · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in West Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into West Beach since 2011, with both local and overseas arrivals falling. While 15.2% of residents arrived from overseas recently, the proportion of people who changed homes in the last five years has dropped to 35.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.7% of people moved home in the last five years, which is lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 40.7%. This figure has fallen 1.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.2% of the population, a figure that is higher than most areas and about the same as the state and national averages. This is a significant drop from 2011, when the figure was 22.1%.
15.2% ▼ -31.4%
Higher than 70% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 15.2%
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 West Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/404031109/west-beach/topic/mobility-location