43.4% ▲ +112.5%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 43.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Opossum Bay · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Opossum Bay
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Forty-three per cent of people in Opossum Bay moved house in the last five years. This is a much higher rate than most similar areas, showing a significant increase in people shifting into the community since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years rose by 23 points since 2011 to reach 43.4%. This is well above the Tasmanian figure of 37.4% and a little above the national rate.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No one in the area arrived from overseas recently, which is far below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. This is a drop from 2016, when 4.2% of residents were recent overseas arrivals.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Opossum Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622019/opossum-bay/topic/mobility-location