34.5% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forrestfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Forrestfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving in and out of Forrestfield compared to the rest of the country. Around 34.5% of residents have shifted homes in the last five years, which is a lower rate of change than seen across Western Australia and the nation.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While more people here have moved recently than in most similar areas, the 34.5% rate remains well below the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.1% of the population, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas but is well below the national average of 14.5%.
7.1% ▼ -57.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Forrestfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50518/forrestfield/topic/mobility-location