37.7% ▲ +3.3%
Lower than 56% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melville · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Melville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Melville sits around the middle of other similar areas for how many people move house. About 37.7% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, though the number of recent arrivals from overseas has dropped sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.7% of people here moved in the last five years, which is slightly lower than the Western Australian figure of 39.0%. This is a small increase from 2011, when the figure was 36.5%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.7% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when the proportion was 18.8%.
8.7% ▼ -53.9%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 8.7%
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/sa3/50704/melville/topic/mobility-location