48.7% ▲ +17.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 48.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
South Burnie · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of South Burnie's residents have arrived from overseas recently, a figure far higher than the national average. This makes the area a significant hub for new arrivals compared to other similar places. The neighborhood is seeing a high volume of people moving in, both from within Australia and from abroad.
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly half of all residents, 48.7%, moved here in the last five years. This is far above the Tasmanian figure of 37.4% and well above the national rate of 40.7%.
48.7% ▲ +17.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 35.5% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the figures for both Tasmania (17.7%) and Australia (14.5%).
35.5% ▲ +120.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in South Burnie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60613/south-burnie/topic/mobility-location