38.6% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 53% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Altona · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Altona
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of Altona residents have changed their address in recent years. This shift is seen in the 38.6% of people who moved into the area within the last five years, though the number of new arrivals from overseas has dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.6% of people moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This is an increase of 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.1% of the population, which is well below the 15.6% seen across Victoria. This figure has fallen 7.1 percentage points since 2011.
11.1% ▼ -38.9%
Higher than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 11.1%
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 Altona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213021341/altona/topic/mobility-location