32.6% ▼ -3.2%
Lower than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ashburton · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Ashburton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move in and out of Ashburton compared to most similar areas. Only 32.6% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable population where people tend to stay in their homes for longer.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 32.6% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is well below the Victorian average of 40.0%. This proportion has also fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.7% of the population, a figure that is well below the 14.5% national average. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 18.6% of residents had recently arrived from overseas.
9.7% ▼ -47.9%
Lower than 56% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
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 Ashburton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/207011146/ashburton/topic/mobility-location