40.3% ▼ -17.9%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.2%
- 2016: 46.5%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shoalwater · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Shoalwater
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Four in ten people in Shoalwater have changed their address in the last five years, making it a very mobile place to live. While many residents move within the country, very few arrive from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Western Australian figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 4.2% of the population, a figure that is well below the state average and far below the national rate.
4.2% ▼ -76.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Shoalwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51348/shoalwater/topic/mobility-location