61.0% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 90.9%
- 2021: 61.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brabham · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than six out of ten people in Brabham have moved house recently, making it one of the most mobile areas in the region. This high turnover reflects a rapidly changing population, with a significant number of new residents arriving both from other cities and from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 61.0% of residents moved to Brabham in the last five years, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and the national rate of 40.7%. This level of movement is among the highest for similar areas.
61.0% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 11.6% of the population, which is higher than most areas. This is a little above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%, though a little below the national average of 14.5%.
11.6% —
Higher than 70% 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 Brabham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50173/brabham/topic/mobility-location