31.1% ▲ +41.7%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Whitfield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Whitfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A higher than usual share of residents in Whitfield have arrived from overseas recently. While 13.3% of the population moved from abroad in the last five years, the area remains relatively stable, with far fewer people moving house overall than in the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.1% of residents have moved home in the last five years. This is well below the 40.0% seen across Victoria and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals is much higher than in most similar areas. At 13.3%, this figure is a little below the state average of 15.6% and the national average of 14.5%.
13.3% ▼ -30.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 13.3%
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 Whitfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22772/whitfield/topic/mobility-location