42.5% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Primrose Sands · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Primrose Sands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 42% of people have moved to Primrose Sands in the last five years, making it a highly mobile area. While many residents are relocating from elsewhere, very few have arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.5% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits well above the Tasmanian figure of 37.4%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up only 3.5% of the population. This is far below both the national figure of 14.5% and the state average of 17.7%.
3.5% ▼ -45.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 Primrose Sands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60522/primrose-sands/topic/mobility-location