52.0% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.1%
- 2016: 53.7%
- 2021: 52.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Scarborough · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Scarborough
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents have moved to Scarborough in the last five years, putting it among the most mobile areas of its kind. This high turnover is driven by both local movers and a strong influx of people from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 52% of people here changed homes in the last five years, a figure far above the 39% seen across Western Australia and 40.7% nationally.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 16.7% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the state average of 10.6%.
16.7% ▼ -52.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 Scarborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51330/scarborough/topic/mobility-location