51.4% ▲ +19.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 52.5%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Onslow · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Onslow
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people are moving to and from Onslow than in most similar areas. Over half the population has changed homes in the last five years, and nearly one in five residents arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The area is highly mobile, with 51.4% of people moving in the last five years. This is far above the 39% seen across Western Australia and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are much more common here than in most areas. Recent arrivals from other countries make up 18.5% of the population, which is well above both the state (10.6%) and national (14.5%) figures.
18.5% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 18.5%
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 Onslow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51181/onslow/topic/mobility-location