52.9% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.6%
- 2016: 47.5%
- 2021: 52.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Launceston · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Launceston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Launceston have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by both local movement and a very strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 52.9% of people here changed homes in the last five years, a figure far above the Tasmania rate of 37.4% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is among the highest levels of movement seen in similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.5% of the population, which is well above the state average of 17.7% and far above the Australian average of 14.5%.
25.5% ▼ -12.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 25.5%
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 Launceston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60322/launceston/topic/mobility-location