32.7% ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Swan Hill · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Swan Hill
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A striking 34.9% of overseas arrivals live in Swan Hill, a figure far above the national average. This high level of recent international migration stands in contrast to the local trend of people moving house less often than in other parts of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people have changed homes recently, with 32.7% moving in the last five years. This is well below the 40.7% national figure and represents a slight drop since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 34.9% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the Victoria figure of 15.6% and has risen by 4.2 percentage points since 2011.
34.9% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 34.9%
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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA26610/swan-hill/topic/mobility-location