Youth Arrivals to Victoria: 2021 – 2022

In the 2021/22 financial year, 2,795 young people aged 12 to 24 years were granted a permanent or provisional visa to settle in Victoria under Australia’s Migration Program across the family, skilled and humanitarian streams. This represents an increase of almost 50% in the number of youth settlers from the previous financial year. Close to one in three (30%) young people settling in Australia during this period settled in Victoria. One in five (20%) settlers to Victoria were aged 12-24 years.