54.0% ▲ +2.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.0%
- 2016: 41.8%
- 2021: 54.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Burnie · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Burnie
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Burnie stands out as one of the most mobile areas at this level, with a very high proportion of people changing homes. More than half of the population has moved in the last five years, driven by a significant surge in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 54% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is far above the 37.4% seen across Tasmania and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 39.2% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the state figure of 17.7% and the national figure of 14.5%.
39.2% ▲ +60.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 39.2%
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 Burnie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60084/burnie/topic/mobility-location