54.2% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 92% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 49.0%
- 2016: 52.5%
- 2021: 54.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Yarra · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Yarra
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher proportion of people have moved into Yarra recently compared to the rest of the state. Over half of all residents have changed homes in the last five years, marking it as one of the most mobile areas in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of residents (54.2%) moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia. This trend has risen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.8% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen slightly by 2.8 percentage points since 2011.
18.8% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 78% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 18.8%
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 Yarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20607/yarra/topic/mobility-location