35.0% ▼ -10.6%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.2%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Dover · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Dover
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 35% of people in Dover changed their home in the last five years, making it the most common movement trend for the area. While more people have arrived from overseas since 2011, the overall level of migration remains well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A little fewer than 35% of residents moved house recently, which is slightly below the Tasmania figure and well below the 40.7% seen across Australia. This is a drop from 2011, when 39.2% of the population had moved.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5% of the population, a figure that has risen since 2011. However, this is still far below the state average of 17.7% and well below the national figure.
5.0% ▲ +271.7%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Dover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621010/dover/topic/mobility-location