30.4% ▲ +20.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Thomastown · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Thomastown
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 13.1% of people in Thomastown recently arrived from overseas, which is higher than most other areas. This makes the suburb a key entry point for new arrivals, even though the overall rate of moving house is much lower than the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 30.4% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is well below the 40% seen across Victoria and far below the Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.1% of the population. This is higher than most areas, though it remains a little below the state figure of 15.6% and the national figure of 14.5%.
13.1% ▼ -4.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.1%
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 Thomastown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22504/thomastown/topic/mobility-location