38.8% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Whittlesea · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Whittlesea
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of people in Whittlesea have changed homes in the last five years. This makes the area more mobile than most similar regions, although it sits slightly below the national figure. Movement patterns have remained very steady over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.8% of residents moved house recently, a figure that is higher than most similar areas. This is a little below the 40% seen across Victoria and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.4% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. This is a little below both the state and national figures, and has fallen 1.5 percentage points since 2011.
13.4% ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 13.4%
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 Whittlesea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA27070/whittlesea/topic/mobility-location