29.5% ▼ -1.0%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Ouyen · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Ouyen
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people move in and out of Ouyen than in most other towns, though it has seen a sharp rise in new arrivals from overseas. While nearly 30% of residents have changed homes recently, the most striking change is the surge in overseas migration over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 29.5% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is far below the Victorian figure of 40%. This stability has barely changed since 2011, when the figure was 29.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas now make up 14.5% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the national average. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 3.7% of residents had recently arrived from abroad.
14.5% ▲ +290.1%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 Ouyen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215067/ouyen/topic/mobility-location