30.5% ▼ -0.7%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Central Goldfields · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Central Goldfields
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A small increase in overseas arrivals has seen the migration profile of Central Goldfields shift slightly since 2011. While more people are arriving from abroad, the area remains much more stable than most of the country, with far fewer residents changing their homes in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 30.5% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is far below the national average of 40.7%. This level of stability has barely changed since 2011, when the figure was 30.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.5% of the population, which is much lower than most areas. This is well below the Victorian figure of 15.6%, though the proportion has risen by 1.6 points since 2011.
6.5% ▲ +32.0%
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.5%
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 Central Goldfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21670/central-goldfields/topic/mobility-location