42.3% ▲ +72.9%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Poowong · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Poowong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten people in Poowong have moved house in the last five years. This reflects a significant shift in the area's population, with the number of new arrivals rising sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas. This is a little above the figures for Victoria and Australia, and the proportion of movers has risen by 18 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This represents a much higher proportion than in most other areas, rising from 10.3% in 2011.
19.0% ▲ +84.1%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2021: 19.0%
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 Poowong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222071/poowong/topic/mobility-location