32.2% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 74% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Morwell · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Morwell
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Morwell recently compared to the rest of the state. Only 32.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable population with few new arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 32.2% of people here moved house in the last five years, a figure that is well below the Victorian average of 40%. This rate has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011, making Morwell much less mobile than most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.6% of the population, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.5%. This proportion of new international residents has barely changed since 2011.
8.6% ▲ +8.3%
Lower than 62% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
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 Morwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/205041096/morwell/topic/mobility-location