36.5% ▼ -3.2%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Swan Hill · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Swan Hill
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A striking 34.2% of people in Swan Hill arrived from overseas recently, placing it among the highest for this trait at its level. This high rate of international arrival stands in contrast to a lower tendency for residents to move between homes locally.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people in Swan Hill have moved house recently compared to most other areas. Only 36.5% moved in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7% and has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 34.2% of the population, a figure far above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This proportion has risen by 9.9 percentage points since 2011.
34.2% ▲ +40.7%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 34.2%
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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2017/swan-hill/topic/mobility-location