38.8% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.2%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Southern Cross · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Southern Cross
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A much higher share of people have moved here from overseas than in most other areas, making Southern Cross a notably international community. Nearly one in five residents arrived from another country recently, contributing to a highly mobile population where many people have changed addresses in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.8% of people moved home in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.2% of the population. This is well above the figures for both Western Australia (10.6%) and Australia (14.5%), and is much higher than most other areas.
19.2% ▼ -46.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 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 Southern Cross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51393/southern-cross/topic/mobility-location