43.6% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 72% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 46.4%
- 2016: 44.1%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ballarat · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Ballarat
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four out of ten people in Ballarat have changed their home in the last five years, making it a place of high movement. This steady churn of residents is seen alongside a significant number of people who have recently moved to the area from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.6% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas and well above the Victorian figure of 40.0%. This is a small drop from 2011, when 46.4% of the population had recently moved.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.4% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the national average of 14.5%. This is a notable decrease from 2011, when 23.5% of residents had arrived from abroad recently.
15.4% ▼ -34.6%
Higher than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 15.4%
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/201011002/ballarat/topic/mobility-location