47.9% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.4%
- 2016: 47.7%
- 2021: 47.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Shearwater · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Shearwater
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost half of the people in Shearwater have moved house recently, marking a significant shift in the local population. Nearly 48% of residents arrived within the last five years, making the area much more mobile than most other places in the region.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.9% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is far above the Tasmanian figure of 37.4% and well above the national average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.5% of the population. While this is higher than most similar areas, it is well below the state figure and a little below the national average.
12.5% ▲ +82.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 12.5%
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 Shearwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60598/shearwater/topic/mobility-location