43.1% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.0%
- 2016: 48.8%
- 2021: 43.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Somerville · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Somerville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four out of ten people in Somerville have moved house recently, making it a very mobile community. This high turnover is driven by both internal migration and a strong influx of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement is common here, with 43.1% of residents arriving in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Western Australia figure of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area's mobility is partly explained by a high number of overseas arrivals, who make up 18.7% of the population. This is well above both the national figure of 14.5% and the state average.
18.7% ▼ -55.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.0%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 18.7%
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 Somerville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51359/somerville/topic/mobility-location