26.4% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mitchell Plateau · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than one in five people in Mitchell Plateau arrived from overseas recently, marking a striking contrast to local movement. While fewer people have moved into the area from other Australian regions compared to the state average, international arrivals have played a much larger role in the population.
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 26.4% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure far below both Western Australia's 39.0% and the national rate of 40.7%.
26.4% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International movement is much more common here than in most areas, with recent overseas arrivals making up 20.0% of the population. This is well above the 10.6% seen across Western Australia and the 14.5% national figure.
20.0% —
Higher than 87% 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 Mitchell Plateau [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50971/mitchell-plateau/topic/mobility-location