39.2% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Trafalgar · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Trafalgar
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of Trafalgar residents have changed homes in the last five years, making it a fairly mobile community. The area has seen a notable shift in its makeup, with a significant rise in people moving here from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.2% of people moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011 and is now about the same as the Victorian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People arriving from overseas make up 13.3% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This has climbed steeply from just 5.1% in 2011, though it remains a little below the national figure.
13.3% ▲ +159.3%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
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 Trafalgar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215086/trafalgar/topic/mobility-location