44.8% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.7%
- 2016: 49.3%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Melville · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Mount Melville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 45% of people in Mount Melville have changed their home in the last five years. This high rate of movement makes the area much more mobile than most other places in the country. While many residents are new to the neighbourhood, very few have arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 44.8% of residents moved house recently, which is well above the figures for both Western Australia and Australia. This level of movement is much higher than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.3% of the population. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and the state average of 10.6%.
6.3% ▼ -68.0%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 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 Mount Melville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51025/mount-melville/topic/mobility-location