39.2% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Airport West · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Airport West have changed their address in the last five years. This level of movement is much higher than in most other similar areas, reflecting a fairly mobile population.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7% and about the same as Victoria.
39.2% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.8% of the population. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is well below the national figure of 14.5%.
8.8% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Airport West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20015/airport-west/topic/mobility-location