40.0% —
Higher than 53% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
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Migration & Movement in Ballarat
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stability defines the movement patterns in Ballarat, where the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has barely changed since 2011. Around 40% of the population moved house in the last five years, a figure that reflects both state and national trends.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40% of residents moved home in the five years before the 2021 census. This is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia, though the rate rose by 1.4 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.4% of the population, which is a little below the national figure and well below Victoria's 15.6%.
12.4% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 54% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.4%
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED202/ballarat/topic/mobility-location