40.1% ▲ +26.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 40.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Spearwood · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Spearwood
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 40.1% of people in Spearwood have moved house in the last five years. This makes it a more mobile area than most similar places. While many residents move locally, a relatively small number arrive from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Four in ten residents have changed homes recently, a rate that is much higher than most similar areas. This movement is slightly above the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and almost identical to the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 7.1% of the population, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is well below both the state rate of 10.6% and the national figure of 14.5%.
7.1% ▼ -56.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Spearwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51396/spearwood/topic/mobility-location