30.1% ▼ -25.0%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.1%
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Augusta · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Port Augusta
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over a quarter of the people in Port Augusta arrived from overseas recently, a figure far above the national average. While the area welcomes many new international residents, far fewer people have moved into the region from other parts of the country lately.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 30.1% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is far below the Australian figure of 40.7%. This reflects a downward trend for Port Augusta, as this number fell by 10 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 26.3% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the South Australian figure of 15.1% and the national figure of 14.5%.
26.3% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 26.3%
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 Augusta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413003/port-augusta/topic/mobility-location