45.3% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 75% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 40.4%
- 2016: 43.9%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
New Town · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in New Town
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in New Town have moved house in the last five years. This makes it a highly mobile area where nearly 45% of people are new arrivals, a rate well above both the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.3% of people moved here within the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure has risen by 4.9 percentage points since 2011 and sits well above the Tasmanian average of 37.4%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 24.8% of the population, a figure far above the Australian average of 14.5%. This high level of recent international migration has barely changed since 2011.
24.8% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 24.8%
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 New Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/601051030/new-town/topic/mobility-location