38.3% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balcatta · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Balcatta
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 4 in 10 people in Balcatta have moved house recently, making it a very mobile place to live. This high turnover is driven by both local shifts and a strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 38.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than in most other areas. This rate is about the same as the Western Australian figure and just a little below the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.7% of the population, a figure higher than most similar areas. This is about the same as the state average, though it sits well below the national figure of 14.5%.
10.7% ▼ -45.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 10.7%
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 Balcatta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50053/balcatta/topic/mobility-location