58.4% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.9%
- 2016: 56.8%
- 2021: 58.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Burswood · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Burswood
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents have moved here recently, making Burswood one of the most mobile areas in the region. A striking 58.4% of people shifted home within the last five years, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This high turnover is linked to a large number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 58.4%, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above both Western Australia's 39.0% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 20.5% of the population. This is well above the figures for Western Australia (10.6%) and Australia (14.5%), and is much higher than most other areas.
20.5% ▼ -45.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 20.5%
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 Burswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50226/burswood/topic/mobility-location