31.2% ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 97% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 31.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Pirie · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Port Pirie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer than one in three residents of Port Pirie have moved house recently, making it one of the least mobile areas in the region. Just 31.2% of people moved in the last five years, which is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.2% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This rate has also fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 11.5% of the population, which is a little below the Australian average. This proportion has dropped by 1.5 percentage points since 2011.
11.5% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 58% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.5%
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 Port Pirie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4006/port-pirie/topic/mobility-location