30.0% ▲ +0.5%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Augusta · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Port Augusta
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher share of people arrive from overseas in Port Augusta than in the rest of the country. While 26% of residents moved here from another country recently, the area is otherwise very stable, with far fewer people moving between homes compared to the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 30% of people moved home in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This level of stability has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 26% of the population, a figure far above the South Australian average of 15.1%. This proportion rose by 12 percentage points since 2011.
26.0% ▲ +79.9%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 26.0%
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 Port Augusta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA46090/port-augusta/topic/mobility-location