36.6% ▲ +7.9%
Lower than 63% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dandenong · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Dandenong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved house recently in Dandenong compared to the rest of the country. While 16.4% of the population arrived from overseas recently, the area sees much less general movement than typical Australian suburbs.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 36.6% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a lower rate than most other areas, although the proportion has risen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.4% of the population, a figure that is a little above the Australian average of 14.5%. This is higher than most similar areas, though the proportion fell by 5.5 percentage points since 2011.
16.4% ▼ -25.2%
Higher than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 Dandenong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/21204/dandenong/topic/mobility-location