33.7% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 33.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Colac Otway · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Colac Otway
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A surprising number of people from overseas have moved to Colac Otway in recent years. While 20.4% of residents arrived from another country recently, the area has seen fewer internal moves than the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 33.7% of people moved home in the last five years. This is well below the Victoria figure of 40% and the national figure of 40.7%, though it has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 20.4% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above both Victoria (15.6%) and Australia (14.5%), and it rose by 7.5 percentage points since 2011.
20.4% ▲ +58.5%
Higher than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 20.4%
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 Colac Otway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21750/colac-otway/topic/mobility-location