27.1% ▼ -24.1%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Portland · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Portland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Zero per cent of residents in Portland have recently arrived from overseas. This reflects a highly stable local population where very few people move in or out compared to the rest of the state.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 27.1% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9%. This rate has fallen by 8.6 percentage points since 2011, showing that residents are staying put more often.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 0.0% of the population, a figure far below the national average of 14.5%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 12.7% of the community had recently arrived from another country.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Portland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115121/portland/topic/mobility-location