41.4% ▲ +41.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Portland North · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Portland North
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over one in five people in Portland North arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the national figure. This makes the area much more diverse than most similar places, alongside a high rate of people moving into the neighbourhood overall.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.4% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits a little above the Victorian figure of 40%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 20.8% of the population. This is well above the figures for both Victoria (15.6%) and Australia (14.5%).
20.8% ▲ —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 20.8%
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 Portland North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22111/portland-north/topic/mobility-location