34.6% ▼ -15.6%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.0%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Heatherton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Heatherton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Heatherton recently compared to the rest of the state and country. Only 34.6% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a more settled population than in many other Australian suburbs.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.6% of people moved here in the last five years. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is well below the Victorian rate of 40.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.0% of the population. This is well below the figures for Victoria (15.6%) and Australia (14.5%), though it is around the middle for similar areas.
8.0% ▼ -51.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 8.0%
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 Heatherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21163/heatherton/topic/mobility-location