39.9% ▼ -32.2%
Higher than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 58.9%
- 2016: 61.2%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Byford · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Byford
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move here from overseas than in other parts of the country, with Byford seeing a much lower proportion of recent arrivals compared to the rest of Australia. While about 40% of the community moved house in the last five years, the area has become much more stable over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.9% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure roughly equal to the state and national averages. This marks a big shift for the area, as the share of people moving in fell by 19 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 6.3% of people are recent arrivals from overseas, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 10.6% and far lower than the national average. This proportion has fallen by 6.0 points since 2011.
6.3% ▼ -48.9%
Lower than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Byford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/506061142/byford/topic/mobility-location