37.9% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.0%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Burnie - Somerset · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Burnie - Somerset
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than double the proportion of overseas arrivals now live in Burnie - Somerset compared to 2011. This growth in international migration has made the area more diverse than the national average, with 17.9% of residents arriving from abroad recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37.9% of people moved house in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the Tasmanian average and has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.9% of the population, a figure well above the national average of 14.5%. This represents a significant increase from 2011, when the proportion was just 9.4%.
17.9% ▲ +89.9%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 17.9%
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 - Somerset [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL612001/burnie-somerset/topic/mobility-location