44.2% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 44.2%
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.
More people have moved into Ballarat recently, with the share of residents who changed homes in the last five years rising 6.8 percentage points since 2011. This movement has helped the area grow, and now 44.2% of the population have moved recently, which is well above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
At 44.2%, the proportion of people who moved in the last five years is much higher than most areas. This is well above both the Victorian figure of 40.0% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 15.7% of the population, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. This is a little above the national average of 14.5% and about the same as Victoria's 15.6%.
15.7% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 15.7%
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL203001/ballarat/topic/mobility-location