52.5% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 53.0%
- 2016: 52.8%
- 2021: 52.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Phillip · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Port Phillip
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Port Phillip have moved home in the last five years, though the share of recent overseas arrivals has fallen since 2011. This creates a highly mobile population where over 52% of residents are relatively new to the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 52.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure far above the national and state averages of about 40%. This high level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 22.1% of the population, which is well above the 14.5% national figure. However, this proportion has fallen by 8.9 percentage points since 2011.
22.1% ▼ -28.7%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 22.1%
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 Port Phillip [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA25900/port-phillip/topic/mobility-location