65.3% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.0%
- 2016: 64.8%
- 2021: 65.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Perth · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in East Perth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 65% of residents in East Perth have moved home in the last five years. This high turnover makes it one of the most mobile areas in the region, with a population that changes far more quickly than in the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is very common here, as 65.3% of people changed homes in the last five years. This is far above the Western Australian figure of 39% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 31.5% of the population, which is among the highest across similar areas. This is far above both the state (10.6%) and national (14.5%) figures.
31.5% ▼ -28.9%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.3%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 31.5%
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 East Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50464/east-perth/topic/mobility-location