47.7% —
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 47.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wallan · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Wallan
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Wallan have moved house since 2016, marking a significant shift in the area's population. This high churn of people is driven by a growing number of new arrivals, though the proportion of people moving here from overseas has dropped sharply over the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 47.7% of people moved into Wallan in the last five years, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This figure rose 11 points since 2016 and is well above both the Victorian (40%) and national (40.7%) figures.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.9% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. However, this is a little below the national figure of 14.5% and fell 15 points since 2016.
11.9% —
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 11.9%
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 Wallan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213015/wallan/topic/mobility-location