44.8% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 46.1%
- 2016: 44.9%
- 2021: 44.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Altona (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Altona (Western Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Well above the national figure, 44.8% of people in Altona (Western Metropolitan) have changed homes in the last five years. This high level of movement is matched by a strong trend of international migration, with 18% of the population arriving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 45% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas and well above the 40% seen across Victoria. This figure has fallen slightly since 2011, when it was 46.1%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18% of the population, a figure well above the Australian average of 14.5%. While this is still much higher than most areas, the proportion has fallen 7.3 points since 2011.
18.0% ▼ -28.9%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 18.0%
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 Altona (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20207/altona/topic/mobility-location