49.6% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Harkness · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Harkness
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Harkness have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes the area much more mobile than the rest of the state or nation. While many people are shifting in, a smaller proportion of the community has arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.6% of people here changed homes in the last five years, a figure that is well above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia. This level of movement is among the highest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.1% of the population. This is higher than most areas, though it remains a little below the national figure of 14.5% and well below Victoria's 15.6%.
12.1% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Harkness [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21140/harkness/topic/mobility-location