36.6% —
Lower than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 36.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Croydon (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people are staying put in Croydon (Eastern Metropolitan) than in most other parts of the country. Only 36.6% of residents have moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure. This stability is mirrored in the low number of new arrivals from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people have moved into the area recently compared to most other regions. At 36.6%, the share of residents who moved in the last five years is well below the 40.7% national average and has fallen slightly since 2016.
36.6% —
Lower than 65% 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 10.3% of the population, which is lower than most areas and well below the 15.6% seen across Victoria. This figure has dropped by 4.3 percentage points since the 2016 census.
10.3% —
Lower than 61% 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 Croydon (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED22201/croydon/topic/mobility-location