42.2% —
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 42.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Box Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Box Hill (Eastern Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people move into Box Hill than in most similar areas, with 42.2% of residents having arrived in the last five years. This high churn is driven by a strong flow of people from abroad, as the area remains a major destination for new arrivals to Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.2% of people have moved home in the last five years. This is a little above the figures for Victoria and Australia, and it has barely changed since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 21.4% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. While this is still much higher than most areas, the proportion fell by 4.2 percentage points since 2016.
21.4% —
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 21.4%
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 Box Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21001/box-hill/topic/mobility-location