76.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 79.2%
- 2021: 76.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Howqua · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap separates Howqua from the rest of the country, with nearly 77% of residents moving here in the last five years. This is far above the national figure of 41%, marking it as a highly mobile area where new arrivals are common.
People who moved in the last five years.
Three quarters of the population (76.8%) have moved home in the last five years, a rate that is far above both Victoria and Australia.
76.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 36.4% of the population, which is far above the Victorian figure of 15.6% and the national rate of 14.5%.
36.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Howqua [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21211/howqua/topic/mobility-location