34.1% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kensington · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Kensington
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Kensington recently compared to the state and national figures. While over a third of residents have changed homes since 2016, this is well below the rates seen across Australia and Western Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.1% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the state figure of 39.0% and the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.5% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, but well below the 10.6% seen in Western Australia and the 14.5% across the country.
7.5% ▼ -59.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 7.5%
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 Kensington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50752/kensington/topic/mobility-location