27.6% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kingsley · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stability has become a hallmark of Kingsley, where residents are far less likely to move than in other parts of the country. Only 27.6% of people shifted homes in the five years before the 2021 census, which is much lower than the national figure.
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 27.6% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is far below the 39% seen across Western Australia and the 40.7% national average. This rate is lower than most other similar areas.
27.6% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 4.3% of the population. This is well below the Western Australian figure of 10.6% and far below the 14.5% seen across Australia.
4.3% ▼ -70.9%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Kingsley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50764/kingsley/topic/mobility-location