42.5% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Riverton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Riverton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A higher share of people have moved into Riverton recently compared to most other areas. Over 40% of residents arrived here in the last five years, making it a more mobile community than the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.5% of people moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and slightly higher than the 40.7% seen across Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.1% of the population, a figure that is higher than most areas. This is a little above the state average of 10.6%, though it sits a little below the national figure of 14.5%.
12.1% ▼ -61.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Riverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51298/riverton/topic/mobility-location