32.3% ▼ -21.2%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.0%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Morwell · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Morwell
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Morwell recently compared to most similar areas. While 32.3% of residents moved home in the last five years, this figure has fallen by 8.7 percentage points since 2011. The area has also seen a drop in recent overseas arrivals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The 32.3% of people who moved in the last five years is well below the figures for Victoria (40.0%) and Australia (40.7%). This reflects a downward trend, as the proportion of people moving into the area has fallen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.4% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. However, this is well below the national figure of 14.5% and has fallen by 9.3 percentage points since 2011.
8.4% ▼ -52.5%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 8.4%
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 Morwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213011/morwell/topic/mobility-location