52.3% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.4%
- 2016: 48.2%
- 2021: 52.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Fitzroy · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Fitzroy
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Fitzroy have moved house in the last five years, creating a very transient local population. This high turnover is driven by both domestic moves and a strong stream of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 52.3% of residents moved into the area in the last five years. This is far above the 40.0% seen across Victoria and the 40.7% national figure, placing Fitzroy among the highest for movement in the country.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area is a major draw for newcomers, with 19.4% of people arriving from overseas recently. This is well above the 15.6% for Victoria and the 14.5% national figure.
19.4% ▼ -12.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 19.4%
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 Fitzroy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20924/fitzroy/topic/mobility-location