38.2% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Walpole · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Walpole
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Walpole have moved house in the last five years. This shift reflects a community where movement is more common than in most similar areas, although the number of new arrivals from overseas has fallen sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that has risen since 2011. This is higher than most similar areas and sits about the same as the Western Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 4.1% of the population, which is far below the national figure. This represents a significant drop from 2011, when recent overseas arrivals sat at 19.1%.
4.1% ▼ -78.5%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Walpole [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522061/walpole/topic/mobility-location