30.1% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rochester · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Rochester
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A low turnover of residents defines Rochester, where only 30.1% of people have moved house in the last five years. This stability is much higher than across the state, with far fewer people changing homes compared to the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 30.1% of residents moved in the last five years, which is well below the Victorian figure of 40.0% and far below the national average of 40.7%. This is around the middle for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.0% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is still well below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
11.0% ▼ -20.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 11.0%
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 Rochester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22184/rochester/topic/mobility-location