73.9% ▲ +33.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.5%
- 2016: 63.7%
- 2021: 73.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Melbourne · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in West Melbourne
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly three quarters of West Melbourne residents have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover creates a transient feel for the area, where a huge proportion of the population are new arrivals from both across Australia and overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 73.9% of people here moved in the last five years. This is far above the 40.7% national figure and the 40.0% rate for Victoria, placing West Melbourne among the highest areas for movement.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 38.3% of the population. This is far above the figures for Victoria (15.6%) and Australia (14.5%), which helps explain why so many people in the area have moved recently.
38.3% ▼ -5.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 47.5%
- 2021: 38.3%
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 West Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22757/west-melbourne/topic/mobility-location