23.4% ▼ -40.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.2%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cairnlea · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cairnlea
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 23.4% of people in Cairnlea moved house in the last five years. This is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia, showing that the local population is much more settled than most other areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people have moved into the area recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 23.4% changed homes in the last five years, which is 17 percentage points lower than both the state and national figures.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.0% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it remains well below the 15.6% seen across Victoria and the 14.5% national average.
7.0% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 Cairnlea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20441/cairnlea/topic/mobility-location