35.4% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brighton · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Brighton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 12% of people in Brighton arrived from overseas recently, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2011. This growth in international arrivals comes while the area remains relatively stable in terms of people moving house.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.4% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is slightly lower than the Tasmanian figure and well below the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.4% of the population, which is well below the Tasmania figure of 17.7%. This proportion has risen steadily from 7.0% in 2011.
12.4% ▲ +77.3%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 12.4%
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 Brighton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA60410/brighton/topic/mobility-location