50.4% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.6%
- 2016: 47.7%
- 2021: 50.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cowes · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Cowes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents in Cowes have moved house recently, placing it among the most mobile areas of its kind. This high level of turnover defines the local movement patterns, even though few people are arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 50.4% of people here moved in the last five years, which is far above the 40% seen across Victoria and well above the national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.8% of the population, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
7.8% ▼ -19.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 7.8%
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 Cowes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20657/cowes/topic/mobility-location