30.7% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Forth · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Forth
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost a third of residents in Forth arrived from overseas recently, which is a far higher share than in most other similar areas. This stands in contrast to the local moving habits, as fewer people here have changed their home in the last five years compared to the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 30.7% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is well below both the Tasmanian average of 37.4% and the Australian figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals is far above the national figure of 14.5% and the state figure of 17.7%, reaching 31.4% in Forth.
31.4% ▲ —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 31.4%
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).
More for Forth
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Forth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60211/forth/topic/mobility-location