37.2% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Acton · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Acton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far smaller share of residents in Acton have recently arrived from overseas compared to the rest of the state. While over a third of the population has changed homes recently, the area's link to international migration is much lower than the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.2% of people here moved house in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas and about the same as the Tasmanian average, though it sits well below the Australian figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.9% of the population. This is far below the Tasmanian rate of 17.7% and well below the national figure of 14.5%.
5.9% ▼ -62.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Acton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60005/acton/topic/mobility-location