41.5% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 43.9%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Torrens · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Torrens
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Torrens arrived from overseas recently, making it much more diverse than most other areas. This high level of international arrival contributes to a very mobile population, where over 40% of residents have moved house in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Torrens is more mobile than most areas, with 41.5% of people moving home in the last five years. This is well above the South Australian figure of 36.9% and is up slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.5% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
19.5% ▼ -19.1%
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 19.5%
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 Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40043/torrens/topic/mobility-location