38.3% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 38.7%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melville · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Melville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved here from overseas than in other parts of the country, making Melville a place with low recent international migration. While 38.3% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, the number of new arrivals from abroad is notably small.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.3% of people moved house in the last five years. This is around the middle for similar areas and is about the same as the Western Australian figure, showing little change since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.2% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This has fallen by 12 percentage points since 2011.
6.2% ▼ -65.2%
Lower than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 6.2%
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 Melville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/507041181/melville/topic/mobility-location