35.6% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 80% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 36.0%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Colac · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Colac
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge surge in overseas arrivals has changed the face of Colac since 2011. While 30.7% of the population are recent arrivals from overseas, the area remains relatively stable in other ways, with few people moving house recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 35.6% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The number of recent overseas arrivals is among the highest for similar areas, sitting at 30.7%. This is far above the Victorian average of 15.6% and has risen by 24 percentage points since 2011.
30.7% ▲ +379.8%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 30.7%
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 Colac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2006/colac/topic/mobility-location