35.7% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
East Gippsland · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in East Gippsland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 35.7% of people in East Gippsland moved home in the five years before the 2021 census. This is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia, suggesting a more settled population than in most other areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.7% of residents moved recently, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement has fallen slightly by 1.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.7% of the population, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This proportion has risen 1.6 percentage points since 2011.
7.7% ▲ +25.2%
Lower than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 7.7%
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 East Gippsland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22110/east-gippsland/topic/mobility-location