39.9% ▲ +21.9%
Higher than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Swan (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in West Swan (East Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly 40% of people in West Swan have changed their address in the last five years, a rate that sits around the middle for similar areas. While local movement is common, the area has seen far fewer new arrivals from overseas compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.9% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is about the same as the Western Australian and national figures. This proportion of the population has risen by 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.4% of the population, which is lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 14.5%. This figure has fallen by 5.1 percentage points since 2011.
8.4% ▼ -37.5%
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 8.4%
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 West Swan (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED55802/west-swan/topic/mobility-location