Visa costs and money sent home
What a visa costs your household in government charges, what a dollar sends home at the Reserve Bank's rate, and what your transfer service keeps.
Migration in numbers shows who is arriving, who is leaving, and the visas behind the headlines, as counts set beside a number that gives them scale.
What it works out
- Arrivals and departures by visa group.
- Population and its parts: natural increase, overseas migration and interstate migration.
- Population by country of birth.
- The ABS's own projected population clock.
- A points calculator for the skilled visas 189, 190 and 491.
Where the numbers come from
- Australian Bureau of Statistics: population and its components, migrant arrivals and departures by visa group, and population by country of birth
- Department of Home Affairs, the skilled independent 189 points table
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, release calendar
The page is counts and comparisons only. Every figure sits next to a number that gives it scale, such as per 1,000 people, and nothing is characterised.
Questions people ask
Is there a points calculator for skilled migration?
Yes. It covers subclasses 189, 190 and 491, following the points tables the Department of Home Affairs publishes. The 2026-27 Budget announced a reformed test, and until it starts the tool uses the test in force.
Where do the migration numbers come from?
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics: population and its components, migrant arrivals and departures by visa group, and population by country of birth.
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