45.2% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 49.5%
- 2021: 45.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dandenong · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Dandenong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Dandenong recently than in most other areas. This high level of movement is driven by a strong flow of newcomers, with over 45% of residents arriving in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.2% of people have moved home in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7% and the Victorian average of 40%. This is a much higher rate of movement than in most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 21.6% of the population, a figure well above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This high proportion of new arrivals helps explain why Dandenong is much more mobile than most similar areas.
21.6% ▼ -38.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 21.6%
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 Dandenong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20707/dandenong/topic/mobility-location