37.7% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Swansea · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Swansea
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Swansea compared to most similar areas, with 37.7% changing homes in the last five years. This movement is partly driven by a rise in international arrivals, who now make up a much larger share of the local population than in most similar places.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.7% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is a little below the Australian figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.1% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This figure is well below the Tasmanian average of 17.7% but has risen since 2011.
12.1% ▲ +54.9%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Swansea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621030/swansea/topic/mobility-location