36.8% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bassendean · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Bassendean
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over a third of people in Bassendean have changed their home in the last five years. This movement is higher than in most similar areas, though the community remains less mobile than the wider state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 36.8% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, but it is a little below the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and well below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.2% of the population. This is around the middle for its level, though it is well below the 10.6% seen across Western Australia and the 14.5% national average.
7.2% ▼ -52.4%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Bassendean [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50078/bassendean/topic/mobility-location