36.2% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Coast · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in West Coast
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
West Coast sits around the middle of other similar areas when it comes to how people move in and out. About 36.2% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved house in the last five years is a little below the Tasmanian figure and well below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.3% of the population, which is well below both the state and national figures. This is a drop of 2.8 percentage points since 2011.
11.3% ▼ -19.9%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 11.3%
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 West Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA65610/west-coast/topic/mobility-location