34.9% —
Lower than 63% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Otway · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Otway
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Otway recently compared to the rest of the state. Only 34.9% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the Victorian figure of 40%. This suggests a very stable population with few newcomers arriving from elsewhere.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While the proportion of people moving into the area rose 2.8 percentage points since 2016, the current 34.9% is still lower than most similar areas. This is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 8.3% of the population, a figure that is well below the Victorian average of 15.6%. This proportion has fallen by 2.8 percentage points since the 2016 census.
8.3% —
Lower than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 8.3%
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 Otway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/217031476/otway/topic/mobility-location