32.5% —
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 32.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A strong sense of stability defines Forest Hill, where residents are far more likely to stay put than people in other areas. Only 32.5% of the population has moved house in the last five years, showing a community that is deeply settled.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 32.5% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well below the Victorian figure of 40%. This stability has barely changed since 2016 and is much lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.9% of the population, a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This figure has fallen by 4.1 percentage points since the 2016 census.
12.9% —
Higher than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 12.9%
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 Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23101/forest-hill/topic/mobility-location