31.4% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Moresby · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Moresby
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 5.3% of people in Moresby arrived from overseas recently, which is well below the national figure. This highlights a local population that is far more stable and less influenced by recent international migration than most of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 31.4% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is well below the 40.7% seen across Australia and the 39% recorded in Western Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals is 5.3%, a figure that is well below both the state average of 10.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
5.3% ▲ +57.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Moresby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50996/moresby/topic/mobility-location