26.1% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Alexander Heights · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Alexander Heights
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Alexander Heights recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 26.1% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is much lower than the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable population where most people stay in their homes for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 26.1% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far below the Western Australian rate of 39.0%. This is lower than most other similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.3% of the population. This is well below the 14.5% seen across Australia and the 10.6% recorded for Western Australia.
6.3% ▼ -41.0%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 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 Alexander Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50008/alexander-heights/topic/mobility-location