33.8% ▲ +6.7%
Lower than 68% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Foster · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Foster
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Foster recently compared to most other areas. Only 33.8% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This stability is mirrored in the low number of new overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is lower than in most other regions, with the 33.8% figure sitting well below Victoria's 40.0%. This rate has risen slightly since 2011, when it was 31.6%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up only 5.6% of the population, which is far below the 15.6% seen across Victoria. This is much lower than most areas, though the figure rose by 1.1 percentage points since 2011.
5.6% ▲ +25.9%
Lower than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Foster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/205031087/foster/topic/mobility-location