42.6% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.0%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bridgetown · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Bridgetown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Bridgetown is much more mobile than most similar areas. About 42.6% of people have moved here in the last five years, a figure that sits well above the state average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A high proportion of residents have moved house recently, with 42.6% arriving in the last five years. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and a little above the national rate.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Very few of these new arrivals come from abroad. Only 2.1% of people are recent overseas arrivals, which is far below the Australian figure of 14.5% and well below the state average.
2.1% ▼ -69.6%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Bridgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50180/bridgetown/topic/mobility-location