40.5% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bright · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Bright
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A significant shift in who lives here has occurred since 2011, with Bright seeing a ten percentage point jump in recent overseas arrivals. This change is part of a broader trend of movement, as 40.5% of residents moved to the area in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.5% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This is roughly the same as the state and national figures, though the proportion of movers has risen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals now make up 11.9% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While this is well below the Victorian average, the number of new arrivals from overseas has grown sharply since 2011.
11.9% ▲ +554.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 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 Bright [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215015/bright/topic/mobility-location