57.2% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.9%
- 2016: 57.4%
- 2021: 57.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Highgate · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Highgate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of Highgate's residents—57.2%—have moved home in the last five years. This makes the area one of the most mobile in the region, with a high turnover of people coming and going. This trend is driven by both local movement and a strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the people living here have moved in the last five years, which is far above the 39% seen across Western Australia. This rate of movement is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 18.2% of the population, a figure that is well above the national average of 14.5%. This is much higher than most other areas.
18.2% ▼ -41.3%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 18.2%
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 Highgate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50635/highgate/topic/mobility-location