41.6% ▲ +20.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 41.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Preston · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Preston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 40% of residents in Preston have changed their address in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most similar places, with a significant number of people moving in from both within Australia and from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.6% of people here moved home in the last five years. This is much higher than most areas and a little above the Victoria figure of 40.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.7% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it is about the same as the national figure of 14.5%.
14.7% ▼ -33.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 14.7%
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 Preston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22121/preston/topic/mobility-location