34.9% —
Lower than 81% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Gippsland · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Gippsland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into or arriving in Gippsland compared to other parts of the country, making it a more stable place to live. Just 34.9% of residents have moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area has slowed down, with the share of people who moved in the last five years falling 3.6 percentage points since 2016 to 34.9%. This is much lower than most other areas and well below the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.1% of the population, a figure that has fallen 11 percentage points since 2011. This is well below both the Victorian average of 15.6% and the national figure of 14.5%.
9.1% ▼ -55.0%
Lower than 78% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 Gippsland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED216/gippsland/topic/mobility-location