41.5% ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 65% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melbourne - West · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Melbourne - West
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten people in Melbourne - West have changed their address recently, making it a highly mobile region. This movement is driven by a mix of people moving within Australia and a significant number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most other areas. This figure has risen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011 and is slightly above the Victorian rate of 40.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.7% of the population, a figure that is a little above the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 4.0 percentage points since 2011.
15.7% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 64% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 15.7%
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 - West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/213/melbourne-west/topic/mobility-location