34.1% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sheffield · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Sheffield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of the people in Sheffield have changed their address recently, though the town is less mobile than most of Australia. About 34.1% of residents moved home in the last five years, while very few new arrivals have come from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is higher than in most similar areas. However, this figure is still well below the Tasmanian rate of 37.4% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 5.7% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. This is far below the 17.7% seen across Tasmania and well below the Australian average of 14.5%.
5.7% ▲ —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Sheffield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60599/sheffield/topic/mobility-location