37.4% ▲ +40.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 37.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Lakes · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in West Lakes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of West Lakes residents have moved house recently, with 37.4% arriving in the last five years. This makes the area more mobile than most similar places, though it sees far fewer new arrivals from overseas than the state or national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.4% of people moved here in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the South Australian figure, though well below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.7% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, but it is well below both the South Australian figure of 15.1% and the national figure of 14.5%.
8.7% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 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 West Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41568/west-lakes/topic/mobility-location