38.9% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 38.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Torrens · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Torrens
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 39% of people in Torrens moved house in the last five years. This makes it a much more mobile area than most similar places, though it remains less transient than the broader ACT and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While 38.9% of residents have moved recently, this is well below the ACT average of 46.1% and a little below the Australian figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 13.2% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is a little below the national figure of 14.5% and well below the ACT's 16.7%.
13.2% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80126/torrens/topic/mobility-location