39.9% —
Higher than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Preston (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Preston (Northern Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 17% of people in Preston arrived from overseas recently, which is much higher than most other areas. This influx of new residents helps shape a community where nearly 40% of the population has changed homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.9% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages. This proportion has risen slightly since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.3% of the population, which is a little above the figures for Victoria and Australia. However, this is a drop from 2016, when the rate was 23.2%.
17.3% —
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 17.3%
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 Preston (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED26903/preston/topic/mobility-location