36.5% ▼ -28.1%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 50.7%
- 2016: 44.4%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Perth · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Perth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Perth (Tas.) since 2011, with the share of recent movers dropping by 14 percentage points. This stability is reflected in the 36.5% of residents who arrived in the last five years, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.5% of people moved here in the last five years, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure but well below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.7% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the state average of 17.7%.
7.7% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 7.7%
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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615017/perth/topic/mobility-location