54.4% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 88% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 48.5%
- 2016: 60.0%
- 2021: 54.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Laverton · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Laverton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have arrived from overseas in Laverton since 2011, yet the area remains a major hub for new residents. Over half the population has moved house recently, making it much more mobile than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of residents moved to Laverton in the last five years. At 54.4%, this is far above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen by 6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 27% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas and far above the Victorian average of 15.6%. This is a drop from 2011, when the figure was 44.7%.
27.0% ▼ -39.5%
Higher than 91% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 27.0%
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 Laverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213051363/laverton/topic/mobility-location