40.0% ▲ +8.2%
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Victoria · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in Victoria
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved house in Victoria since 2011, though the share of recent overseas arrivals has dropped. About 40% of residents moved in the five years before the 2021 census, which is a higher rate than in most similar areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years rose by 3 percentage points since 2011 to reach 40%. This is about the same as the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.6% of the population, which is a little above the Australian average of 14.5%. This figure fell 3.6 percentage points since 2011.
15.6% ▼ -18.6%
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 15.6%
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 Victoria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/2/victoria/topic/mobility-location