26.2% ▲ +0.4%
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Wimmera · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in West Wimmera
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Very few people have moved into West Wimmera recently, but there is a growing number of new arrivals from abroad. Only 26.2% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure far below the Victorian and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is among the lowest for similar regions. Just 26.2% of people moved home in the last five years, which is far below the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia, and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
In contrast to the low internal migration, recent overseas arrivals have risen to 22.1% since 2011. This is well above the figures for Victoria (15.6%) and Australia (14.5%).
22.1% ▲ +104.6%
Higher than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 22.1%
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 West Wimmera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/215011393/west-wimmera/topic/mobility-location