72.9% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.5%
- 2016: 71.7%
- 2021: 72.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Docklands · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Docklands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 73% of people in Docklands have moved house in the last five years. This makes it one of the most transient areas in the country, with a population that changes far more rapidly than in the rest of Victoria and Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The movement rate is far above the national figure, with 72.9% of residents arriving within the last five years. This is 32 percentage points higher than the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 41.9% of the population, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This is far above the Victorian figure of 15.6%.
41.9% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 51.0%
- 2021: 41.9%
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 Docklands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20766/docklands/topic/mobility-location