39.4% ▼ -6.4%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 42.1%
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Perth · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Perth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in new overseas arrivals has shifted the movement patterns in Perth since 2011. While about 39.4% of people moved house in the last five years, the proportion of recent immigrants has fallen by 12 percentage points over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 39.4% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure. This is a little below the national rate and represents a 2.7 percentage point fall since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.5% of the population, a figure that is well below the Australian average. This is about the same as the state average, though the proportion has fallen significantly since 2011.
10.5% ▼ -54.1%
Lower than 65% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5009/perth/topic/mobility-location