27.1% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Charlton · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Charlton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Charlton recently compared to similar areas, though it has seen a rise in new arrivals from abroad. Only 27.1% of residents changed homes in the last five years, marking the town as a very stable place to live.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 27.1% of residents moved in the last five years, which is far below the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia. This figure has also fallen by 4.1 percentage points since 2011, showing that people are staying put more often.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.6% of the population, a figure that is higher than in most similar areas. This is well below the national rate of 14.5%, but it has risen by 3.6 percentage points since 2011.
9.6% ▲ +59.8%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Charlton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221018/charlton/topic/mobility-location