45.5% ▲ +38.4%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Butler (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Butler have moved house in the last five years, making it a highly transient area. This constant flow of people suggests a community in a state of rapid change as new residents settle in.
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement is very high here, with 45.5% of people arriving in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7%, and the proportion has risen by 13 percentage points since 2011.
45.5% ▲ +38.4%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Far fewer people have recently arrived from overseas compared to most other areas. Only 7.1% of the population are new arrivals from abroad, a figure that has fallen by 8.3 percentage points since 2011.
7.1% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 83% of state electorate 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 Butler (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51104/butler/topic/mobility-location