43.3% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
West Hobart · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in West Hobart
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 43% of West Hobart residents have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most other places, with a significant number of people both moving in and arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 43.3% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the Tasmania figure of 37.4%. This rate of movement is much higher than in most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.7% of the population, a figure that is a little above the national average of 14.5%. This proportion is much higher than in most other similar areas.
16.7% ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 West Hobart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60732/west-hobart/topic/mobility-location