43.3% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Glenorchy · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Glenorchy
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four out of ten people in Glenorchy have changed their address recently, making it a highly mobile place to live. This shift is driven by a strong flow of both local movers and a very high number of new arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 43.3% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 37.4%. This proportion of movers has risen by 6.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 25.4% of the population, a figure that is far above the Australian average of 14.5%. This level of recent international migration is among the highest for similar areas.
25.4% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 90% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 25.4%
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 Glenorchy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/601031017/glenorchy/topic/mobility-location