34.9% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 84% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Lincoln · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Port Lincoln
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Port Lincoln recently compared to the rest of the country. Just 34.9% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved home in the last five years is much lower than most areas. This figure has fallen by 4.8 percentage points since 2011 and sits a little below the South Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.2% of the population, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This level of overseas migration has barely changed since 2011.
11.2% ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 11.2%
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 Port Lincoln [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4005/port-lincoln/topic/mobility-location