37.1% —
Higher than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Murray River · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Murray River
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A growing number of new faces have arrived in Murray River over recent years. While 37.1% of people moved here in the last five years, the area has seen a notable jump in people arriving from overseas, which rose to 16.4% by 2021.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.1% of residents moved to Murray River in the last five years, a figure that has risen since 2016. This is higher than most similar areas, though it sits well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People arriving from overseas make up 16.4% of the population, which is a little above both the state and national figures. This proportion has grown by 4.4 percentage points since the 2016 census.
16.4% —
Higher than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 Murray River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15520/murray-river/topic/mobility-location