37.2% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melville · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Melville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly 37% of people in Melville have moved house in the last five years. This reflects a fairly stable population, as this movement rate is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is still a little below the Western Australian rate of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.3% of the population. This is around the middle for its level, but sits well below both the state (10.6%) and national (14.5%) figures.
6.3% ▼ -62.9%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Melville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50932/melville/topic/mobility-location