49.6% —
Higher than 87% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 49.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
La Trobe · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in La Trobe
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in La Trobe have moved house in the last five years, a figure well above the national average. This creates a highly mobile population where about 49.6% of people are new to the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving has become much more common here, with the share of people who moved in the last five years rising 18 points since 2016. At 49.6%, this is much higher than most areas and well above the Victorian figure of 40.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.2% of the population, which is a little below the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is a drop from 2011, when 21.0% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
12.2% ▼ -42.1%
Lower than 56% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 12.2%
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 La Trobe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED227/la-trobe/topic/mobility-location