48.8% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Smiths Beach · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Smiths Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost half of all residents in Smiths Beach have moved house recently, a figure well above the state and national averages. While internal movement is high, the area sees almost no new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 48.8% of people here moved in the last five years, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
In stark contrast to the high internal turnover, no one here arrived from overseas recently. This 0% rate is far below the Victorian figure of 15.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Smiths Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22294/smiths-beach/topic/mobility-location