54.5% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.7%
- 2016: 52.1%
- 2021: 54.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rivervale · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Rivervale
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Rivervale have moved house recently, marking a shift toward a more transient population. This area is now a major hub for newcomers, with a high proportion of both internal migrants and recent arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 54.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is far above the 39.0% seen across Western Australia and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
This mobility is mirrored by a high number of international arrivals, with 19.2% of people moving here from overseas. This is well above both the state figure of 10.6% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
19.2% ▼ -42.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 19.2%
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 Rivervale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51299/rivervale/topic/mobility-location