48.0% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.6%
- 2016: 48.9%
- 2021: 48.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Melbourne · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Port Melbourne
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Port Melbourne have moved house recently, making it far more mobile than most other areas. This high churn is reflected in a population where 48% of people arrived within the last five years, well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The movement of people into Port Melbourne is much higher than in most areas. About 48% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well above the 40% seen across Victoria.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.4% of the population. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the Australian average of 14.5%.
14.4% ▼ -41.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 14.4%
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 Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22107/port-melbourne/topic/mobility-location