40.4% —
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dawesville (South West) · State Electorate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move here from overseas than in other parts of the country, though Dawesville remains a steady draw for those moving within Australia. While about 40% of the population has changed homes recently, the number of new arrivals from abroad is remarkably low.
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 40.4% of people in Dawesville moved house in the last five years. This is about the same as the national figure and slightly above the Western Australian average of 39.0%.
40.4% —
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 5.6% of residents arrived from overseas recently, which is among the lowest for similar areas. This is well below the state figure of 10.6% and far lower than the 14.5% seen across Australia.
5.6% —
Lower than 92% 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 Dawesville (South West) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED52006/dawesville/topic/mobility-location