54.5% ▲ +11.2%
Higher than 93% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 49.1%
- 2016: 53.3%
- 2021: 54.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melbourne - Inner · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Melbourne - Inner
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Melbourne - Inner have changed homes in the last five years. This makes the area one of the most mobile regions in the country, with 54.5% of residents moving recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the population has moved house since 2016. This 54.5% figure is far above the 40.7% national average and has risen by 5.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 27.2% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. This is among the highest proportions of recent migrants seen in similar areas, although it fell slightly from 30.5% in 2011.
27.2% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 91% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 27.2%
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 - Inner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/206/melbourne-inner/topic/mobility-location