29.4% ▲ +9.0%
Lower than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sunshine West · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Sunshine West
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people move in and out of Sunshine West compared to most similar areas. Only 29.4% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a stable population where many people stay in their homes for longer.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 29.4%, which is much lower than most areas and far below the Victorian average of 40.0%. This figure has risen slightly by 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.2% of the population, a figure that is around the middle for similar areas. This is well below the national average of 14.5% and has fallen by 3.0 percentage points since 2011.
11.2% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Sunshine West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213011338/sunshine-west/topic/mobility-location