50.2% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.8%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 50.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Fremantle · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Fremantle
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people are moving into Fremantle than in most similar areas. Over half the population has changed homes in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile community that attracts a significant number of new residents from both within Australia and overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.2% of people here moved house in the last five years, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This is far above the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and well above the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.0% of the population, a figure much higher than most other areas. This is well above the 10.6% seen across Western Australia and about the same as the national average of 14.5%.
15.0% ▼ -35.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 15.0%
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 Fremantle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50522/fremantle/topic/mobility-location