47.1% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.3%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 47.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sandy Bay · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Sandy Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher movement than most similar areas defines Sandy Bay, with nearly half the population having changed homes recently. This high turnover is driven by both local moves and a very large number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 47.1% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is well above the 37.4% seen across Tasmania and the 40.7% national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International migration is a major feature here, with recent overseas arrivals making up 27.7% of the population. This is far above the Australian figure of 14.5% and well above the Tasmanian average of 17.7%.
27.7% ▼ -25.9%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 27.7%
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 Sandy Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60585/sandy-bay/topic/mobility-location