36.8% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Fairy · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Port Fairy
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Higher than most similar areas, 36.8% of Port Fairy residents have moved house in the last five years. While this suggests a fair amount of movement locally, the town is less mobile than the wider state and national averages. This trend is mirrored in the low number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.8% of people here moved in the last five years. This is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the Victorian figure of 40% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.3% of the population. This is around the middle for its level, but well below the 15.6% seen in Victoria and the 14.5% national figure.
8.3% ▼ -17.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 8.3%
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 Port Fairy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22105/port-fairy/topic/mobility-location