29.8% ▼ -19.8%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Great Western · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Great Western
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A higher-than-usual share of people have recently arrived from overseas in Great Western. While 10.3% of the population are new arrivals, far fewer people have moved house recently compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 29.8% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7% and the Victorian rate of 40.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The 10.3% of people who arrived from overseas recently is higher than in most similar areas, though this remains well below the national figure of 14.5%.
10.3% ▼ -65.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.3%
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 Great Western [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21098/great-western/topic/mobility-location