36.9% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 36.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Burnie - Somerset · Urban Area
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Steady living patterns define Burnie - Somerset, where a small number of people change homes. About 36.9% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people moving in the last five years is lower than in most areas. At 36.9%, this is about the same as the Tasmanian figure and well below the national rate of 40.7%.
36.9% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 14.9% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average. This figure has risen slightly since 2011.
14.9% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 59% of urban area 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 Burnie - Somerset [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/6001/burnie-somerset/topic/mobility-location