40.4% —
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 41.2%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
New arrivals from overseas have dropped sharply in Burwood since 2016, falling from 26.7% to 17.8%. This change defines the movement of people into the area, even while general residential turnover remains steady. Today, nearly one in five residents arrived from another country recently.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.4% of people moved house in the last five years. This is around the middle for similar areas and is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
40.4% —
Higher than 57% 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 17.8% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is well above the national average of 14.5%.
17.8% —
Higher than 75% 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 Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21706/burwood/topic/mobility-location