40.7% —
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 44.2%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cooper · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Cooper
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in overseas arrivals has changed the face of Cooper since 2011. The proportion of recent international arrivals fell by 16 percentage points to reach 15% in 2021. This shift happened while the general movement of people into the area remained steady.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.7% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is around the middle for similar areas and is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia, though it fell 3.5 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15% of the population, which is higher than most areas. This figure is about the same as the national and state averages.
15.0% ▼ -51.4%
Higher than 62% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 15.0%
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 Cooper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED208/cooper/topic/mobility-location