27.9% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 27.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Emerald · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Emerald
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stability is the main story in Emerald, where far fewer people have changed homes recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 27.9% of residents moved in the last five years, showing a very settled population for this part of Victoria.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The 27.9% of people who moved in the last five years is far below the Victorian figure of 40.0% and the national rate of 40.7%. This level of movement is also lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are less common here, with recent arrivals making up 5.1% of the population. This is well below the Australian average of 14.5% and far below Victoria's 15.6%.
5.1% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Emerald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20868/emerald/topic/mobility-location