39.6% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 41.3%
- 2021: 39.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brighton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Brighton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people move into and out of Brighton than in most other similar areas. Nearly 40% of residents have changed homes recently, and overseas arrivals make up a significant portion of the population. This creates a highly mobile community where new arrivals are common.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.6% of people here moved home in the last five years. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the Victorian figure of 40%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very common in Brighton, where 14.7% of people arrived from another country recently. This is much higher than in most other similar areas and sits about the same as the national figure of 14.5%.
14.7% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 14.7%
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 Brighton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20337/brighton/topic/mobility-location