60.0% ▲ +30.0%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.1%
- 2016: 56.7%
- 2021: 60.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Box Hill · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Box Hill
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Box Hill in recent years than in most other similar areas. It is a highly mobile place where 60% of residents changed their address in the last five years, a figure far above the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Six in ten people moved here in the last five years, which is far above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia. This rate is among the highest for areas of this type.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 35.2% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. This high level of recent migration helps explain why so many people have moved into the area lately.
35.2% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 35.2%
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 Box Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20314/box-hill/topic/mobility-location