42.6% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 44.5%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Canning · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Canning
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 43% of people in Canning moved house in the last five years, making it a highly mobile area. This trend of frequent movement is matched by a high number of residents arriving from overseas, though the rate of new arrivals has dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people have moved here recently than in most other areas, with 42.6% arriving in the last five years. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and has remained steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.5% of the population, which is much higher than in most areas and well above the state average of 10.6%. However, this figure has fallen by 14 points since 2011.
17.5% ▼ -44.4%
Higher than 74% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 17.5%
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 Canning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50603/canning/topic/mobility-location