40.8% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Pottsville · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Pottsville
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Four in ten residents in Pottsville have changed their address in the last five years. This high level of movement shows a place where people frequently move in and out, though the number of new arrivals from overseas has dropped sharply since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.8% of people moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the state and national averages, and it has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Only 6.4% of people are recent arrivals from overseas, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.5%. This represents a steep fall from 2011, when 27.2% of the population had arrived from abroad recently.
6.4% ▼ -76.5%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Pottsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114025/pottsville/topic/mobility-location