67.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Norwest · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Norwest
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Constant change defines the neighborhood in Norwest, where 67.6% of people have moved house in the last five years. This creates a highly mobile population that is much more transient than the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 67.6% of residents moved here within the last five years, a figure far above the 40.7% national average. This rate is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 23.3% of the population, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 14.9%. This high level of recent migration from abroad helps explain why so many people in Norwest have moved recently.
23.3% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Norwest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13036/norwest/topic/mobility-location