40.0% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 43.0%
- 2016: 42.2%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cockburn · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Cockburn
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Changing neighbourhoods are less common in Cockburn, where 40% of people moved house in the last five years. This is about the same as the national figure, though the proportion of people moving has fallen slightly since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40% of residents have moved home in the last five years. This is a little above the Western Australian figure of 39%, but it is a 3 point drop from the 43% recorded in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 8.2% of the population, which is lower than most areas. This figure is well below the Australian average of 14.5% and has fallen sharply from 20.9% in 2011.
8.2% ▼ -60.9%
Lower than 75% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 Cockburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50701/cockburn/topic/mobility-location