55.2% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.3%
- 2016: 56.5%
- 2021: 55.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Footscray · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Footscray
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Footscray have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by both local movement and a very strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 55.2% of people here changed homes in the last five years, which is far above the figures for Victoria (40.0%) and Australia (40.7%). This rate of movement is among the highest of any similar area.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 23.4% of the population, a figure well above both the Victorian average of 15.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
23.4% ▼ -35.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 23.4%
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 Footscray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20935/footscray/topic/mobility-location