52.3% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.7%
- 2016: 53.6%
- 2021: 52.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Elwood · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Elwood
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of all residents have moved into Elwood within the last five years, making it a highly mobile area. This constant churn of people is driven by both domestic moves and a strong draw for people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 52.3% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 40.7% national average and among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International migration is also high, with 19.1% of residents arriving from overseas recently. This is well above the Victorian figure of 15.6% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
19.1% ▼ -32.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 19.1%
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 Elwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20867/elwood/topic/mobility-location