40.2% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.2%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Spotswood · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Forty per cent of residents in Spotswood have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most similar places, though it is about the same as the Victorian and national figures.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.2% of people here changed homes in the last five years, a rate much higher than most similar areas.
40.2% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.2% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
10.2% ▼ -39.5%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Spotswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22319/spotswood/topic/mobility-location