69.8% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 63.6%
- 2016: 68.1%
- 2021: 69.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melbourne City · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Melbourne City
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 70% of people in Melbourne City moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes it one of the most mobile areas in the country, driven by a huge number of residents arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Mobility is very high here, with 69.8% of people moving recently. This is far above the 40.7% national figure and is 6.2 percentage points higher than it was in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 41.7% of the population, which is far above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This figure has fallen 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
41.7% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 46.9%
- 2016: 53.3%
- 2021: 41.7%
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 Melbourne City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20604/melbourne-city/topic/mobility-location