40.2% ▼ -36.2%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 62.9%
- 2016: 53.4%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Southern Cross · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Southern Cross
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Southern Cross arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This movement makes the area stand out compared to most similar places, though the number of people moving house has dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most areas and slightly above the Western Australian figure. However, this is a big drop from 2011, when 62.9% of the population had moved.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.7% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is well above the 10.6% seen across Western Australia and the 14.5% national figure.
18.7% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 18.7%
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 Southern Cross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521047/southern-cross/topic/mobility-location