33.9% ▲ +1.3%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
George Town · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in George Town
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Movement patterns in George Town have remained remarkably steady over the last decade. While 33.9% of the population changed homes in the five years before 2021, the town sees far fewer new arrivals from overseas than the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 33.9% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. This is well below both the Tasmanian rate of 37.4% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.2% of the population, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 17.7%. This share of the community has stayed almost the same since 2011.
6.2% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 6.2%
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 George Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615008/george-town/topic/mobility-location