33.4% ▼ -23.9%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 40.8%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melton West · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Melton West
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved recently into Melton West compared to the rest of the country. While about 33.4% of residents changed homes in the last five years, this is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This trend of lower mobility is also seen in overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 33.4% of people here moved house in the last five years. This is well below the Victorian average of 40.0% and the Australian figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.1% of the population. This is well below the 15.6% seen across Victoria and the 14.5% national average.
8.1% ▼ -37.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
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 Melton West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21644/melton-west/topic/mobility-location