27.5% ▼ -19.9%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forest · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Forest
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people in Forest have arrived from overseas recently than in most similar areas. While a high proportion of the population are new arrivals, the area is generally stable with fewer people moving house than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 27.5% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is well below the Tasmania figure of 37.4% and far below the 40.7% seen across Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.7% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This is a little above the national figure of 14.5% and about the same as the 17.7% for Tasmania.
16.7% ▼ -25.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60208/forest/topic/mobility-location