22.4% ▼ -3.4%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Watsonia North · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Watsonia North
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Watsonia North recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 22.4% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable community where people tend to stay put.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 22.4% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is far below both the Victorian and national averages of around 40%. This rate is also much lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 5.0% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure of 14.5%.
5.0% ▼ -32.2%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Watsonia North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22722/watsonia-north/topic/mobility-location