42.4% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 43.0%
- 2021: 42.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mount Lawley (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Frequent moves are a common part of life in Mount Lawley, where 42.4% of people have changed homes in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas and sits well above the Western Australian figure.
People who moved in the last five years.
More people have moved here recently than in most other areas, with 42.4% arriving in the last five years. This is a little above the national figure, though the proportion has fallen slightly since 2011.
42.4% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 68% 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 11.8% of the population, which is a little below the national figure. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when the proportion of new arrivals from overseas was 23.8%.
11.8% ▼ -50.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Mount Lawley (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED53902/mount-lawley/topic/mobility-location