35.1% ▲ +3.4%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Brighton · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Brighton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly 35% of people in Brighton have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area more stable than most of the country, as residents are less likely to relocate than those in the rest of Tasmania and Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.1% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is lower than most areas. This figure is a little below the Tasmania rate of 37.4% and well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.6% of the population, a figure that has more than doubled since 2011. This is well below the 17.7% seen across Tasmania and a little below the Australian average of 14.5%.
12.6% ▲ +104.7%
Higher than 50% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 12.6%
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/sa3/60101/brighton/topic/mobility-location