31.2% ▲ +9.4%
Lower than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 31.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Castlemaine Surrounds · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Castlemaine Surrounds
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A gap of nearly 10 percentage points separates Castlemaine Surrounds from the rest of the country in terms of how many people move home. Only 31.2% of residents shifted houses in the last five years, making it a place where people tend to stay put much longer than they do in other parts of Victoria.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 31.2%, which is well below the 40% seen across Victoria. While this figure has risen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011, it remains much lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 2.6% of the population, a figure far below the 14.5% national average. This is among the lowest rates for this level of area and has fallen since 2011.
2.6% ▼ -31.5%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Castlemaine Surrounds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/202021028/castlemaine-surrounds/topic/mobility-location