35.3% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Colac · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Colac
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher proportion of people in Colac arrived from overseas recently compared to the rest of the country. While 33.2% of the population are recent overseas arrivals, this contrasts with a smaller group of people moving house within Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.3% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, but well below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 33.2% of the population. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and is far above the national figure of 14.5%.
33.2% ▲ +70.4%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 33.2%
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 Colac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20607/colac/topic/mobility-location