42.2% —
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bellarine (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A gap of over 10 percentage points separates Bellarine (Western Victoria) from the state average when it comes to overseas arrivals. While the area is attracting a fair number of people moving from other regions, it sees very few new arrivals from abroad.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.2% of people here moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This is a little above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen since 2016.
42.2% —
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up only 5.2% of the population, which is among the lowest for this type of area. This is far below the 15.6% seen across Victoria and has barely changed over the last five years.
5.2% —
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Bellarine (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20508/bellarine/topic/mobility-location