36.2% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 47.4%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rutherglen · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Rutherglen
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into Rutherglen compared to the rest of the country. Only 36.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a stable population with many long-term locals.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The number of people moving into the area has fallen by 11 percentage points since 2011. This recent movement rate is well below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.4% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has risen slightly by 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
6.4% ▲ +46.6%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Rutherglen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215076/rutherglen/topic/mobility-location