41.2% ▲ +16.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 41.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Essendon · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A little over 17% of Essendon residents arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is a little above the national average. This high level of international arrival contributes to a very mobile population where many people have changed homes lately.
People who moved in the last five years.
More than four in ten people here have moved in the last five years. This is much higher than most areas and sits a little above the Victorian figure of 40%.
41.2% ▲ +16.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas and a little above both the state and national figures.
17.0% ▼ -29.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Essendon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20885/essendon/topic/mobility-location