37.4% ▲ +3.1%
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 37.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tasmania · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in Tasmania
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into and settled in Tasmania since 2011. The state has seen a notable increase in overseas arrivals, though the overall proportion of people who changed homes in the last five years remains well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.4% of people moved home in the last five years, which is lower than most other states. This is well below the Australian average of 40.7%, though the figure has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 17.7% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most other states. This is well above the national average of 14.5% and has risen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
17.7% ▲ +13.2%
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
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 Tasmania [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/6/tasmania/topic/mobility-location