38.8% ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Curtin · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Curtin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A notable 16.9% of people in Curtin arrived from overseas recently, a figure that sits slightly above the national average. This movement makes Curtin much more dynamic than most similar areas, though it sees fewer internal movers than the rest of the territory.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 38.8% of residents moved house in the last five years. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it is well below the 46.1% seen across the Australian Capital Territory.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.9% of the population. This is a little above the national figure of 14.5% and about the same as the territory average.
16.9% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 16.9%
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 Curtin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80043/curtin/topic/mobility-location