36.7% ▼ -44.0%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.5%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Portsmith · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Portsmith
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A fifth of the people in Portsmith arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. While many of the local population are new arrivals from abroad, the area is generally more stable than other parts of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.7% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 20% of the population. This is much higher than most areas and sits well above both the national figure of 14.5% and the state's 13.7%.
20.0% ▼ -21.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 Portsmith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32354/portsmith/topic/mobility-location