43.5% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 74% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 42.2%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 43.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
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Migration & Movement in Ballarat
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 43% of people in Ballarat have moved house in the last five years, which is a higher rate than most other areas. This reflects a mobile population, with more people arriving recently than the state or national figures suggest.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years rose to 43.5% in 2021. This is well above the Victorian figure of 40% and a little above the Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.5% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure. This represents a drop from 2011, when the rate was 17.8%.
15.5% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 15.5%
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2003/ballarat/topic/mobility-location