39.0% ▼ -8.3%
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 42.8%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Western Australia · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in Western Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into and arriving from overseas in Western Australia than in other parts of the country. While 39% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, the number of recent overseas arrivals has dropped sharply to 10.6%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39% of people moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a decrease of 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The share of recent overseas arrivals is 10.6%, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is a steep decline from 2011, when the figure was 22.7%.
10.6% ▼ -53.4%
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 10.6%
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 Western Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/5/western-australia/topic/mobility-location