39.0% ▲ +7.8%
Lower than 51% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 39.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Williamstown (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Williamstown (Western Metropolitan)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people move into Williamstown from abroad than in most other parts of the country. While about 39% of the population changed homes in the last five years, the number of new arrivals from overseas has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 39% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 2.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.9% of the population, which is well below the Victorian figure of 15.6%. This is a notable drop from 2011, when the share of recent overseas arrivals was 14.9%.
9.9% ▼ -33.9%
Lower than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 9.9%
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 Williamstown (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED28607/williamstown/topic/mobility-location