68.6% —
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 67.4%
- 2021: 68.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than two-thirds of people in Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) have changed homes in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by a massive influx of people from abroad, though the rate of new overseas arrivals has dropped significantly since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 69% of residents moved house recently, a figure far above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia. This rate of movement is among the highest for similar areas and rose slightly since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 42.3% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. While this remains very high for the area, the proportion of new arrivals fell 13 points since the 2016 census.
42.3% —
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 54.9%
- 2021: 42.3%
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 Melbourne (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24703/melbourne/topic/mobility-location