52.0% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 51.1%
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 52.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Scarborough · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Scarborough
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Scarborough have moved house recently, though the number of new overseas arrivals has dropped significantly since 2011. This high turnover means 52% of residents arrived within the last five years, making it a much more mobile area than most of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 52% of residents moved into Scarborough in the last five years, which is far above the 40.7% national figure. This level of movement is much higher than in most other areas and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.7% of the population, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%. While this is still much higher than most areas, it has fallen by 18 percentage points since 2011.
16.7% ▼ -52.0%
Higher than 74% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 Scarborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/505021092/scarborough/topic/mobility-location