40.8% —
Higher than 51% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 40.1%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Greater Melbourne · Capital City
Migration & Movement in Greater Melbourne
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 40.8% of people in Greater Melbourne have changed their home in the last five years. This makes the region's movement patterns very similar to the rest of the state and the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved recently is about the same as the Victorian and national figures, and this rate has barely changed since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.8% of the population, which is a little above the national figure. However, this proportion fell by 4.4 percentage points since the 2016 census.
15.8% —
Lower than 51% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 15.8%
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 Greater Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/gccsa/2GMEL/greater-melbourne/topic/mobility-location