35.2% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rutherglen · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Rutherglen
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Rutherglen sees more people moving in and out than most similar areas. While the local movement is higher than usual for its type of town, the area remains much less connected to overseas migration than the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this figure is still well below the 40.0% seen across Victoria and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.9% of the population, a figure around the middle for similar areas. This is well below the state figure of 15.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
5.9% ▼ -24.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Rutherglen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22217/rutherglen/topic/mobility-location