38.9% ▼ -11.6%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 38.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Smithton · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Smithton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge jump in overseas arrivals defines the recent movement in Smithton, where 27.4% of people arrived from another country. This figure is far above the national average and shows the area has become much more diverse over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 38.9% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Tasmanian figure, though it has fallen by 5.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 27.4% of the population, which is among the highest for areas of this size. This is well above the state average and far above the national figure, marking a 25 percentage point increase since 2011.
27.4% ▲ +851.4%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 27.4%
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 Smithton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615023/smithton/topic/mobility-location