34.0% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Seymour · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Seymour
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A high number of overseas arrivals has changed the face of Seymour in recent years. While fewer people are moving between Australian towns, nearly a quarter of the local population has arrived from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Residents are less likely to have changed homes recently, with 34.0% moving in the last five years. This is well below the 40.0% seen across Victoria and is down 6.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals have surged to 24.6%, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.5%. This represents a significant shift for Seymour, as the proportion of recent migrants rose by 12 percentage points since 2011.
24.6% ▲ +100.1%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 24.6%
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 Seymour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214019/seymour/topic/mobility-location