49.0% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.7%
- 2016: 51.3%
- 2021: 49.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kensington · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Kensington
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Kensington have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes it one of the most mobile areas in the region, with 49% of people changing homes since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 49% of people here have moved in the last five years, a figure well above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.3% of the population, which is much higher than most areas, though it sits about the same as the national figure of 14.5%.
14.3% ▼ -38.1%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 Kensington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21327/kensington/topic/mobility-location