41.0% ▲ +29.3%
Higher than 63% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Spearwood · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Spearwood
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in overseas arrivals is the biggest shift in Spearwood, where only 7.1% of people arrived from another country recently. While new international arrivals have fallen, the area has seen a rise in people moving house, with 41% of residents arriving in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people have moved into Spearwood recently than in most other areas, with 41% arriving in the last five years. This is a little above the Western Australian figure of 39% and has risen by 9.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals is well below both the state (10.6%) and national (14.5%) figures. This number has fallen significantly over the last decade, dropping from 16.3% in 2011 to 7.1% in 2021.
7.1% ▼ -56.6%
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Spearwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/507011160/spearwood/topic/mobility-location