30.7% ▲ +3.3%
Lower than 80% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Cambridge · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Cambridge
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Cambridge recently compared to the rest of the state and country. Only 30.7% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This suggests a very stable local population where people tend to stay in their homes for the long term.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 30.7% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well below the Tasmanian average of 37.4%. This is much lower than most other similar areas, though the proportion has risen slightly by 1.0 percentage point since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are rare in Cambridge, with only 4.9% of residents arriving from another country recently. This is far below the 17.7% seen across Tasmania, and the share of recent arrivals has fallen by 3.8 percentage points since 2011.
4.9% ▼ -43.6%
Lower than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.9%
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 Cambridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/601021005/cambridge/topic/mobility-location