44.0% —
Higher than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 40.8%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melton (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Melton (Western Victoria)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Melton recently than in most other similar areas. Around 44% of residents arrived within the last five years, a figure that has risen since 2016 and sits well above the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 44% of the community moved here in the last five years, which is well above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia. This movement has increased by 3.2 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.6% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. This is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia and has barely changed since 2016.
12.6% —
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
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 Melton (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24808/melton/topic/mobility-location