38.7% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.5%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wonthaggi · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wonthaggi
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 10 percentage points fewer people have recently arrived from overseas in Wonthaggi compared to the national figure. This gap highlights a local movement pattern where most new residents are coming from within Australia rather than from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.7% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This is still a little below the Victorian rate of 40.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 4.9% of the population. This is far below the 15.6% seen across Victoria and well below the Australian average of 14.5%.
4.9% ▼ -55.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
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 Wonthaggi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22829/wonthaggi/topic/mobility-location