45.4% ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.0%
- 2016: 52.7%
- 2021: 45.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Balga · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Balga
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 45% of people in Balga have changed their address in the last five years, making it a very transient place to live. This high level of movement is driven by a significant number of people moving in from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 45.4% of residents moved to the area in the last five years. This is well above the 39% seen across Western Australia and much higher than most other similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 20.7% of the population, a figure that is far above the Western Australian average of 10.6%. This high proportion of new arrivals helps explain why so many people have moved into Balga recently.
20.7% ▼ -34.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 20.7%
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 Balga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50055/balga/topic/mobility-location