32.6% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Purnim · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Purnim
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 17% of people in Purnim arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This migration trend stands out in a place where other residents are less likely to move home than those across the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 32.6% of people moved house in the last five years. This is well below the figures for both Victoria (40%) and Australia (40.7%).
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 16.7% of the population. This is a little above the national figure of 14.5% and the state's 15.6%.
16.7% ▼ -61.7%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 Purnim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22127/purnim/topic/mobility-location