48.8% ▲ +22.0%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.0%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 48.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Smiths Beach · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Smiths Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Smiths Beach have moved house in the last five years. This high level of mobility makes the area stand out among similar places, as 48.8% of the population are recent arrivals to the locality.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.8% of people moved here within the last five years, a figure that is well above the Victorian average of 40.0%. This trend has climbed steadily, rising 8.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No one in the area recently arrived from overseas, which is far below the national figure of 14.5%. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when 17.6% of residents were new arrivals from abroad.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Smiths Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222085/smiths-beach/topic/mobility-location