26.8% ▼ -1.9%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hovea · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Hovea
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move in and out of Hovea than in other parts of the country. Only 26.8% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable community where people tend to stay put.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved home recently is far below the Western Australian figure of 39.0%. This low rate of movement makes Hovea much more stable than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.4% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and the state figure of 10.6%.
7.4% ▼ -36.6%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Hovea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50657/hovea/topic/mobility-location