42.3% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 42.4%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melton · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Melton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten people have changed their address recently, making Melton a high-turnover area where new faces are common. This constant movement of residents defines the local community, though the number of new arrivals from overseas has actually dropped over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.3% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is a little above both the Victorian and national averages and has remained steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.8% of the population, which is well below the Victorian figure of 15.6%. This proportion has fallen by 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
11.8% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 11.8%
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 Melton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA24650/melton/topic/mobility-location