36.7% ▼ -18.0%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Swan Hill · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Swan Hill
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge surge in overseas arrivals has changed the face of Swan Hill, where 34.8% of people moved here from another country recently. This shift comes as the local population becomes more settled, with fewer people moving house overall than in the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 36.7% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement has fallen by 8.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The number of recent overseas arrivals has jumped 25 points since 2011 to reach 34.8%. This is far above the Victoria average of 15.6% and puts Swan Hill among the highest for arrivals at this level.
34.8% ▲ +239.7%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 34.8%
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/ucl/UCL213014/swan-hill/topic/mobility-location