36.1% ▲ +20.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Lincoln · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Port Lincoln
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Port Lincoln recently, with the share of residents who changed homes in the last five years rising 6.2 percentage points since 2011. This shift has occurred while the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has dropped to 11.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.1% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure that is roughly the same as the South Australian average. However, this is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
People arriving from overseas make up 11.7% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is a little below the national average and has fallen 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
11.7% ▼ -19.0%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 11.7%
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/ucl/UCL413004/port-lincoln/topic/mobility-location