40.6% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Virginia · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Virginia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 40% of people in Virginia have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most similar places. While many locals have changed homes recently, very few have arrived from overseas in the same period.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.6% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure well above the South Australian average of 36.9%. This level of movement is much higher than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.4% of the population. This is well below both the national figure of 14.5% and the state average of 15.1%.
7.4% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Virginia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41507/virginia/topic/mobility-location