45.8% ▲ +28.4%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Sorell · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Port Sorell
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents have moved into Port Sorell in the last five years. This high turnover makes it a very mobile community where many people are still settling into the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.8% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 37.4%. This movement has increased steadily, rising 10 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 8.3% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion of recent arrivals from abroad has fallen by 6 percentage points since 2011.
8.3% ▼ -42.0%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 8.3%
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 Sorell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615018/port-sorell/topic/mobility-location