40.2% ▼ -26.0%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.3%
- 2016: 51.3%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Abbey · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Abbey
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A striking gap exists between Abbey and the rest of the country regarding overseas arrivals, with far fewer new migrants moving here than the national average. However, the area is quite dynamic, as 40.2% of residents have moved house in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.2% of people have changed homes in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Western Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.3% of the population, which is well below both the state figure of 10.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
6.3% ▼ -55.7%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Abbey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50002/abbey/topic/mobility-location