28.8% ▼ -18.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Boya · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Boya recently compared to the rest of the country, with only 28.8% changing homes in the last five years. This reflects a very stable community where almost no one has arrived from overseas recently.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 28.8% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and the national figure of 40.7%.
28.8% ▼ -18.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No one in Boya has recently arrived from overseas. This is far below the 10.6% seen across Western Australia and the 14.5% national average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Boya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50168/boya/topic/mobility-location