41.8% ▲ +11.0%
Higher than 81% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mitchell · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Mitchell
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A significant gap exists between the local and national trends in overseas migration, though Mitchell is seeing a surge in people moving house. While 41.8% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, the proportion of recent overseas arrivals remains well below the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than four in ten people (41.8%) moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen 4.1 percentage points since 2011 and sits slightly above the Victorian average of 40%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.4% of the population, a figure that has fallen 1.5 percentage points since 2011. This is well below the 15.6% seen across Victoria and the 14.5% national figure.
11.4% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 11.4%
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 Mitchell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA24850/mitchell/topic/mobility-location