35.3% ▲ +15.3%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Colton · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Colton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A well below national rate of movement defines Colton, where 35.3% of people have changed homes in the last five years. This stability is a key feature of the area, as it sees fewer people moving in and out than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is 35.3%, which is lower than most areas and well below the national figure. This figure has risen by 4.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.2% of the population, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages. This is a drop of 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
13.2% ▼ -14.9%
Higher than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Colton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40007/colton/topic/mobility-location