36.7% —
Lower than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 38.3%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rockingham (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Rockingham (South Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in new overseas arrivals has changed the face of Rockingham (South Metropolitan) over recent years. The area has seen a significant decline in people moving in from abroad, and overall movement into the region is now well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.7% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is lower than most areas. This figure is a little below the Western Australian average and has fallen slightly since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 4.8% of people are recent arrivals from overseas, which is among the lowest at this level. This is well below the figures for both the state and the nation, and represents a steep fall of 15 percentage points since 2016.
4.8% —
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Rockingham (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED54605/rockingham/topic/mobility-location