40.9% ▲ +12.9%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 40.6%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Pelican Point · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Pelican Point
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A stark gap exists between the number of people moving into Pelican Point and those arriving from abroad. While 40.9% of residents shifted home in the last five years, very few are coming from overseas, making the area much more dependent on internal migration than the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.9% of people moved house in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure is a little above the Western Australia rate of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up only 2.6% of the population, a figure that is well below the state average of 10.6% and far below the national figure of 14.5%.
2.6% ▼ -88.9%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Pelican Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51223/pelican-point/topic/mobility-location