39.2% ▲ +26.3%
Higher than 56% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Airport West · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Airport West
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of Airport West residents have moved house in the last five years, though the area sees far fewer new overseas arrivals than the rest of the state. While internal movement is common, the number of people arriving from abroad remains low.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.2% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 8.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.8% of the population, a figure well below the 15.6% seen across Victoria. This level of overseas migration has barely changed since 2011.
8.8% ▲ +3.1%
Lower than 61% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 8.8%
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 Airport West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/210011226/airport-west/topic/mobility-location