31.0% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lower Portland · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Lower Portland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Lower Portland sits around the middle of similar areas for how often people move. Only 31% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 31% of people here have moved in the last five years. This is well below the 39.9% seen across New South Wales.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.9% of the population. This is well below the national average of 14.5% and the state figure of 14.9%.
5.9% ▲ +41.2%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Lower Portland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12421/lower-portland/topic/mobility-location