33.7% —
Lower than 80% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 33.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mirrabooka (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Mirrabooka recently than in most similar areas. Just 33.7% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure. This suggests a more settled population compared to other parts of the region.
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 33.7% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This represents a 6.0 point drop since 2016, making it a much less mobile area than most.
33.7% —
Lower than 80% of state electorate areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.6% of the population, which is a little above the Western Australian figure. This is around the middle for similar areas, though the proportion of new arrivals fell 7.7 points since 2016.
12.6% —
Higher than 52% 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 Mirrabooka (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED53602/mirrabooka/topic/mobility-location