36.8% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Sorell · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Port Sorell
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 36.8% of people in Port Sorell have moved house in the last five years. This makes it a more mobile area than most similar places, although it sees far fewer recent overseas arrivals than the state or national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More people have moved here recently than in most similar areas, with 36.8% shifting home in the last five years. This is about the same as the Tasmanian figure, but well below the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.5% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. This is far below the Tasmania figure of 17.7% and well below the Australian average of 14.5%.
6.5% ▲ +4.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 6.5%
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 Port Sorell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60516/port-sorell/topic/mobility-location