38.7% ▲ +2.3%
Lower than 52% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
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Migration & Movement in Ballarat
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Ballarat from overseas compared to the rest of the state. While nearly 39% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, the area attracts fewer new international arrivals than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.7% of people moved here in the last five years, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia. This proportion has risen slightly by 0.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.6% of the population, a figure well below the Victorian average of 15.6%. This has barely changed since 2011, when the figure was 12.3%.
11.6% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 65% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 11.6%
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/201/ballarat/topic/mobility-location