36.1% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Lincoln · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Port Lincoln
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A well below national rate of movement marks Port Lincoln, where fewer people have changed homes recently than in most of Australia. While about 36.1% of residents moved in the last five years, this is lower than the 40.7% seen across the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.1% of people moved home in the last five years, which is about the same as the South Australian figure of 36.9%. This is a drop from 2011, when the rate was 39.4%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.7% of the population, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. This is well below the South Australian rate of 15.1%.
11.7% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 11.7%
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 Lincoln [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA46300/port-lincoln/topic/mobility-location