34.1% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.1%
- 2016: 50.7%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wedgefield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wedgefield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than one in ten people in Wedgefield have arrived from overseas recently, making it much more diverse than most similar areas. While the community has a strong international presence, it is more stable than other parts of the country with fewer people moving house recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.1% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.3% of the population, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas and well above the Western Australian average.
14.3% ▼ -62.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 Wedgefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51555/wedgefield/topic/mobility-location