Where do migrants live?

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently published: Australian Social Trends, 2014 which used the census data to look at where migrants in Australia live.

 

The Perth section of the report is below. (The full report is attached as a pdf at the bottom of the post)

 

 

Perth is an increasingly important site of migrant settlement in Australia. Between the 2001 and 2011 Censuses, the number of migrants living in Perth grew 51%, higher than the growth seen in either Sydney (24%) or Melbourne (31%) during the same period.

Perth suburbs with large concentrations of overseas-born populations were located near the city centre, to the south-east, and to the city's far north. In the city centre, this included Northbridge (68%), Perth CBD (57%), and East Perth (61%) where more than half of residents were born overseas.

 

In the city's south east, suburbs with large migrant populations included Bentley (62%), Cannington (61%), Karawara (57%) and Queens Park (55%). The large population of migrants found in Karawara and Bentley reflect the fact these suburbs host student accommodation for Curtin university. In 2011, almost one in four residents of these suburbs was an international student attending University, TAFE, or other further education institution in Australia.

 

To the far north of the city, growing populations of migrants were seen in newly developed beachside suburbs. More than half of all residents in Jindalee (62%), Mindarie (55%) and Iluka (54%) were overseas-born.

 

Other suburbs with large overseas-born populations included Crawley (62%) which hosts the University of Western Australia, and Glendalough (56%) to the north-west of the city.

 

The following map shows the proportion of overseas-born people in each suburb in Perth.

 

 

Who are Perth's largest migrant groups?

 

Patterns of settlement in Perth by country of birth

 

The United Kingdom

 

Around one in every eight residents of Perth was born in the UK (12% or 184,000 people). This is the largest overseas-born population group living in Perth by quite a margin, and the largest overseas-born population group found in any capital city in Australia.

 

While migrants born in the UK were spread across the city, they were prominently found in the northern suburbs. Seventeen of the twenty Perth suburbs with the largest concentrations of UK-born migrants were in the area to Perth's north, including Jindalee (43%), Mindarie (34%), and Connolly (33%).

 

Southern coastal suburbs also had large proportions of UK-born migrants. One in four residents in Secret Harbour (26%), East Rockingham (26%), and Calista (24%) were UK-born in 2011.

 

New Zealand, South Africa and India

 

As with Sydney and Melbourne, migrants born in New Zealand were spread across a number of suburbs in Perth. Suburbs with the largest proportion of persons born in New Zealand included Leda (8%) and Cockburn Central (7%) to the city's south, and Midvale (7%) to the east.

 

South African-born migrants were similar to Perth's UK-born migrants in that they were concentrated in suburbs to the city's north. This included the Joondalup suburbs of Jindalee (9%), Iluka (8%), Burns Beach and Mindarie (both 7%). While the populous Perth suburbs of Canning Vale, Dianella and Duncraig had the largest South African-born communities in terms of numbers (around 1,100, 900 and 600 people respectively), as a proportion they were only about 4%.

 

Migrants born in India tended to live in suburbs in Perth’s inner north-west, including Glendalough (15%) and Osborne Park (9%). Cannington in the inner south east also had a large Indian-born population (8%).

 

Malaysia, China and Vietnam

 

A number of Asian nations contributed to Perth's population. For migrants born in Malaysia, suburbs with relatively large proportions were found to the south east of the city. This included Karawara (11%) and Bentley (10%) near Curtin university. These suburbs also had high proportions of people born in China (accounting for 7% of the population of both suburbs), while one in ten residents of Crawley (10%), another university suburb, was Chinese-born.

 

Migrants born in Vietnam were most strongly concentrated in Mirrabooka (9%) and Marangaroo (8%) in the city's north.

 

 

wheredomigrantslive.pdf

[odies]

well this is very useful to all those who do not want to live with Brits. However remember some are small suburbs .

[Give me a break!]

Have to agree its very interesting and helpful.

[odies]

wish they did this in the uk. would be really interesting

[Guest guest9824]

Good reading the stats, very helpful.