45.6% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.0%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 45.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wembley · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
One in four people in Wembley arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. This high level of international migration contributes to a very mobile population where nearly half of all residents have changed homes in the last five years.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.6% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is well above the 40.7% national figure and much higher than most similar areas.
45.6% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.7% of the population. This is far above the Western Australian figure of 10.6% and among the highest rates for areas at this level.
25.7% ▼ -27.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Wembley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51564/wembley/topic/mobility-location