35.3% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Western Creek · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Zero recent overseas arrivals make Western Creek a place with very little international migration. While over a third of the population has moved house recently, the area sees far fewer new arrivals from abroad than the state or national figures.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.3% of residents moved home in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains a little below the Tasmanian figure and well below the Australian average.
35.3% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No one in the area has recently arrived from overseas. This is far below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia, and it is lower than most other similar areas.
0.0% —
Lower 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 Western Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60744/western-creek/topic/mobility-location