47.5% —
Higher than 72% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 49.2%
- 2021: 47.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Greater Darwin · Capital City
Migration & Movement in Greater Darwin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Greater Darwin have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes the region much more mobile than most of the country. It is an area where people frequently relocate, though this trend has dipped slightly since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.5% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This rate is also higher than the Northern Territory average, though it fell 1.7 percentage points from 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 19.8% of the population, a figure well above the Australian average of 14.5%. This is a little below the rest of the Territory, and it reflects a drop of 7.0 percentage points since 2016.
19.8% —
Higher than 65% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 19.8%
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 Greater Darwin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/gccsa/7GDAR/greater-darwin/topic/mobility-location