34.6% ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 43.8%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Thornlie (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Thornlie (East Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Thornlie over the last decade, with a notable drop in both internal and overseas arrivals. Only 34.6% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Thornlie is much more stable than most areas, as the share of people who moved home in the last five years fell 9.3 points since 2011 to 34.6%. This is well below the 39% recorded across Western Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11% of the population, which is about the same as the state average. This figure has fallen by 4 points since 2011 and is well below the national level of 14.5%.
11.0% ▼ -26.6%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2021: 11.0%
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 Thornlie (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED55202/thornlie/topic/mobility-location