69.8% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 63.6%
- 2016: 68.1%
- 2021: 69.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melbourne · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Melbourne
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people move in and out of Melbourne than in most other similar areas. This high turnover is driven by a massive influx of people from abroad and a resident population that changes frequently. Nearly 70% of people living here have moved home in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 70% of residents have changed homes since 2016, a figure far above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia. This rate of movement has risen by 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 41.7% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. While still among the highest for its class, this proportion fell 5.3 percentage points between 2011 and 2021.
41.7% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 46.9%
- 2016: 53.3%
- 2021: 41.7%
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 Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA24600/melbourne/topic/mobility-location