41.5% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sunshine · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Sunshine
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost a quarter of people in Sunshine arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. This makes the area a major hub for new arrivals, with 23% of the population moving here from abroad in recent years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving is common here, with 41.5% of people arriving in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Victorian figure of 40%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 23% of the population, which is among the highest rankings for this level. This is well above both the state (15.6%) and national (14.5%) figures.
23.0% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 23.0%
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 Sunshine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22395/sunshine/topic/mobility-location