40.2% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hobart · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Hobart
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Hobart since 2011, with 40.2% of residents arriving in the last five years. This high level of movement is driven largely by overseas arrivals, who now make up a significant portion of the population.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.2% of people moved here in the last five years, which is higher than most areas and a little above the Tasmanian figure of 37.4%. This is a rise of 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very common here, with 21.7% of people arriving from abroad recently. This is well above both the Tasmanian rate of 17.7% and the national figure of 14.5%.
21.7% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 21.7%
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 Hobart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL603001/hobart/topic/mobility-location