40.2% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 58% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 48.1%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kwinana · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Kwinana
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 40% of people in Kwinana have changed their address in the last five years, meaning four in ten residents are relatively new to the area. This reflects a steady flow of people moving in and out, though the number of recent overseas arrivals has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 40.2% of residents moved home in the five years before the 2021 census. This is about the same as the national figure, though it is a little above the Western Australian average and has fallen by 3.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.3% of the population, which is lower than most other areas. This figure is well below the national average of 14.5% and has fallen by 10 percentage points since 2011.
9.3% ▼ -51.8%
Lower than 68% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 9.3%
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 Kwinana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50703/kwinana/topic/mobility-location