45.0% ▲ +19.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 40.6%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Sorell · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Sorell
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Sorell have moved here within the last five years. This high level of movement suggests a rapidly changing community where many people are settling into new lives in the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45% of people moved to Sorell in the last five years, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and well above the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 14.4% of the population. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it sits well below the Tasmania figure of 17.7%.
14.4% ▲ +43.4%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 14.4%
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 Sorell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60609/sorell/topic/mobility-location