34.5% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.1%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Greenfields · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Greenfields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have recently moved to or from overseas in Greenfields compared to the rest of the country. While about 34.5% of residents changed homes in the last five years, this is well below the national figure. The area's stability is further highlighted by a very low proportion of recent overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.5% of people here moved house in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the 39.0% seen across Western Australia and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 4.8% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, but is well below both the state figure of 10.6% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
4.8% ▼ -65.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Greenfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50583/greenfields/topic/mobility-location