51.4% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.2%
- 2016: 51.1%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Battery Point · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Battery Point
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Battery Point have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by both local movement and a very strong trend of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 51.4% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far above the 37.4% seen in Tasmania and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The area attracts many people from abroad, with recent overseas arrivals making up 24.9% of the population. This is well above the state figure of 17.7% and far above the 14.5% seen across Australia.
24.9% ▼ -11.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 24.9%
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 Battery Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60033/battery-point/topic/mobility-location