49.1% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.7%
- 2016: 50.3%
- 2021: 49.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Burwood · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Burwood
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Burwood have moved house recently, making it one of the most mobile areas in the region. This high turnover is driven by a huge influx of people from abroad, with over a quarter of the population arriving from overseas in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 49.1% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the 40% seen across Victoria and the national figure of 40.7%. This rate of movement is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area sees a massive number of new international residents, with 27.5% arriving from overseas recently. This is far above the Victorian average of 15.6% and the Australian figure of 14.5%.
27.5% ▼ -28.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 27.5%
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 Burwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20426/burwood/topic/mobility-location